to buy and sell goods or services, especially as a business
The company trades coffee from South America to Europe.
For centuries, the city traded in silk and spices.
to give something to someone and receive something else in return
At lunch we traded sandwiches because I wanted her tuna one.
He offered to trade his baseball card for mine.
present participle of trade: doing the act of buying, selling, or exchanging goods or services
She is trading vintage clothes on social media.
Trading food with classmates made lunchtime fun.
