Trade vs. Swap

Tradenoun

(uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.

Tradenoun

(countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.

Tradenoun

(countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.

Tradenoun

(countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.

Tradenoun

(countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.

Tradenoun

(countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.

Tradenoun

An occupation in the secondary sector; as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.

Tradenoun

The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.

Tradenoun

Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.

Tradenoun

(only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.

Tradenoun

A brief sexual encounter.

Tradenoun

Instruments of any occupation.

Tradenoun

(mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.

Tradenoun

(obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.

Tradenoun

(obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.

Tradeverb

(intransitive) To engage in trade

Tradeverb

(intransitive) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.

Tradeverb

(transitive) To give (something) in exchange for.

Tradeverb

To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.

Tradeverb

To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.

Tradeverb

(intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).

Tradenoun

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

Tradenoun

Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.

Tradenoun

Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.

Tradenoun

Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.

Tradenoun

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.

Tradenoun

Instruments of any occupation.

Tradenoun

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.

Tradenoun

The trade winds.

Tradenoun

Refuse or rubbish from a mine.

Tradeverb

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.

Tradeverb

To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.

Tradeverb

To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; - usually followed by with.

Tradeverb

To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.

Trade

imp. of Tread.

Tradenoun

the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services;

Tradenoun

people who perform a particular kind of skilled work;

Tradenoun

an equal exchange;

Tradenoun

the skilled practice of a practical occupation;

Tradenoun

a particular instance of buying or selling;

Tradenoun

the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers;

Tradenoun

steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator;

Tradeverb

engage in the trade of;

Tradeverb

turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase;

Tradeverb

be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions;

Tradeverb

exchange or give (something) in exchange for

Tradeverb

do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood;

Tradeadjective

relating to or used in or intended for trade or commerce;

Tradenoun

the action of buying and selling goods and services

Tradenoun

the practice of making one's living in business, as opposed to in a profession or from unearned income

Tradenoun

(in sport) a transfer

Tradenoun

a job requiring manual skills and special training

Tradenoun

the people engaged in a particular area of business

Tradenoun

people licensed to sell alcoholic drink.

Tradenoun

a trade wind

Tradeverb

buy and sell goods and services

Tradeverb

buy or sell (a particular item or product)

Tradeverb

(especially of shares or currency) be bought and sold at a specified price

Tradeverb

exchange (something) for something else, typically as a commercial transaction

Tradeverb

give and receive (something, typically insults or blows)

Tradeverb

transfer (a player) to another team

Trade

Trade involves the transfer of goods or services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market.

Swapverb

(transitive) To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else).

Swapverb

To hit, to strike.

Swapverb

To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.

Swapverb

To descend or fall; to rush hastily or violently.

Swapnoun

An exchange of two comparable things.

Swapnoun

(finance) A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of cashflow against another stream.

Swapnoun

Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.

Swapnoun

A blow; a stroke.

Swapverb

To strike; - with off.

Swapverb

To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop.

Swapverb

To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.

Swapverb

To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.

Swapnoun

A blow; a stroke.

Swapnoun

An exchange; a barter.

Swapadverb

Hastily.

Swapnoun

an equal exchange;

Swapverb

exchange or give (something) in exchange for

Swapverb

move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science

Swapverb

take part in an exchange of

Swapverb

give (one thing) and receive something else in exchange

Swapverb

substitute (one thing) for another

Swapnoun

an act of exchanging one thing for another

Swapnoun

a thing that has been or may be given in exchange for something else

Swapnoun

an exchange of liabilities between two borrowers, either so that each acquires access to funds in a currency they need or so that a fixed interest rate is exchanged for a floating rate.