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Definition of trade : 1. A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.
2. A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
3. Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
4. Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
5. imp. of Tread.
6. Instruments of any occupation.
7. Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
8. Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.
9. The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician.
10. The trade winds.
11. To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.
12. To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
13. To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; - usually followed by with.
14. To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.

Synonyms:

mickle, handle, treat, shell out, delegation, bench, fence, patronage, clientele, change over, bid price, art, address, bull, beauty parade, tack, cunning, renew, e-commerce, agency, slyness, wiliness, avocation, good deal, stack, quite a little, passel, look at, plow, great deal, book, backup, blue chip, grapple, tidy sum, relieve, anchor, employ, in consideration of something, craftiness, administrator, bear, big business, captaincy, asset, the biz, broker-dealer, spate, dealing, bid, commercial, championship, draft, bull market, disdain, throw, duty, raft, muckle, sight, heap, succeed, game, switch over, administer, guile, mass, acquisition, change hands, division of labor, merchandise, craftsmanship, broking, conduct, cover, line, carry on, parcel out, captain, mess, plenty, mete out, consider, contend, appointment, swop, lot, draft in, collaboration, ambassador, pass on, contract, racket, pursuit, background, call, shift, care, account executive, handicraft, handcraft, base, option, lay, sell, give way, action, dicker, commissioner, pile, wad, sale, foxiness, capitalist, business deal, flip, call up, boss, make out, mint, quid pro quo, flock, make way (for), condescension, businessperson, backing, allot, bear market, brokerage, take, trading, cope, businessman, account, batch, hatful, deal with, apportion, digital, business plan, bondholder, baron, get by, manage, bearish, transposition, mountain, trade-in, cannibalize, back-and-forth, betray, distribute, portion out, hand, workmanship, bullish, dish out, truck, peck, deal in, custom, businesswoman, slew, receive, deal out, pot, softwood, agent, marketplace, craft, divvy up, trade wind, make do, commutation, dole out, capacity, dispense, trade-off, flip-flop, work

service, establishment, busy work, position, merchant, negotiation, job, calling, commission, specialty, livelihood, retailing, exchange, career, sales, venture, commerce, station, vocation, practice, firm, posting, business, situation, concern, company, employment, selling, labor, barter, management, profession, proprietorship, partnership, occupation, holding, interest, industry, activity, enterprise, affair, consortium, market, transaction, assignment, corporation

free trade, interchange, deal, bargain, traffic, haggle, transfer

concur, affiliate, dovetail, overlap, mesh, interweave, band, intertwine, participate, associate, ally, confederate, reciprocate, collude, share, intermesh, pool, unite, co-operate, collaborate, interlace, interplay

subrogate, substitute, alternate, commute, represent, change, second, replace, displace, supplant, imitate, swap, switch, supersede

replacement, displacement, subrogation, substitution, supersession, alternative

Usage examples:

• Are you experienced in this kind of Trade? - "The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada", Francis Parkman.
• It is a bad business, Bastow, and it seems to me that two or three years in prison would be the best thing for him, as he will not take up the only trade open to him. - "Colonel Thorndyke's Secret", G. A. Henty.
• Wherever there were boys was my world and my trade. - "Confessions of Boyhood", John Albee.