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Definition of trading : 1. Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company.
2. Frequented by traders.
3. of Trade
4. Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician.

Synonyms:

barter, business, vocation, craft, concern, employment, art, job, occupation, doing business, industry, profession, commerce, buying, trade, duty, speculation, calling, traffic, work, negotiating, selling, action, transaction, affair, handicraft, avocation

dealing, haggling, bartering, bargaining, interchanging, transferring, trafficking

filling in, commuting, standing in, seconding, displacing, changing, substituting, representing, superseding, supplanting, swapping, switching, exchanging, replacing, imitating, alternating, subrogating

dovetailing, uniting, meshing, intermeshing, pooling, collaborating, affiliating, intertwining, colluding, allying, interweaving, banding, concurring, associating, participating, reciprocating, sharing, co-operating, overlapping, interlacing, confederating

Usage examples:

• Sunday trading received much attention, several enactments being passed respecting it. - "Old Church Lore", William Andrews.
• Mentioned in 1691 as in a fur- trading partnership with Frontenac. - "The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History", Various.
• Following the course of the stream, ere long they came to the place which had been his trading- post with the Indians. - "The Adventures of Daniel Boone: the Kentucky rifleman", Uncle Philip.