trade
craft | the skilled practice of a practical occupation, he learned his trade as an apprentice |
| trade | the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services, Venice was an important center of trade with the East, they are accused of conspiring to constrain trade |
| fair trade | trade that is conducted legally |
| fair trade | trade that satisfies certain criteria on the supply chain of the goods involved, usually including fair payment for producers, often with other social and environmental considerations |
| free trade | international trade free of government interference |
North American Free Trade Agreement
NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
| trade patronage | the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers, even before noon there was a considerable patronage |
| carriage trade | trade from upperlass customers |
barter
swap
swop
trade | an equal exchange, we had no money so we had to live by barter |
horse trade
horse trading | the swapping of horses (accompanied by much bargaining) |
| deal trade business deal | a particular instance of buying or selling, it was a package deal, I had no further trade with him, he's a master of the business deal |
slave trade
slave traffic | traffic in slaves, especially in Black Africans transported to America in the th to th centuries |
| protection trade protection | the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition, he made trade protection a plank in the party platform |
| restraint of trade | any act that tends to prevent free competition in business |
tradeoff
trade-off | an exchange that occurs as a compromise, I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine |
reference
consultation | the act of referring or consulting, reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer |
packrat
pack rat
trade rat
bushytail woodrat
Neotoma cinerea | any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America, hoards food and other objects |
commodity
trade good
good | articles of commerce |
| reference grid | a pattern of horizontal and vertical lines that provide coordinates for locating points on an image or a map |
seaway
sea lane
ship route
trade route | a lane at sea that is a regularly used route for vessels |
| stock-in-trade | any equipment constantly used as part of a profession or occupation, friendliness is the salesman's stock in trade |
World Trade Center
WTC
twin towers | twin skyscrapersstories high in New York City, built feet tall into , destroyed by a terrorist attack on September , |
| frame of reference frame | a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning |
coordinate system
frame of reference
reference system
reference frame | a system that uses coordinates to establish position |
reference
denotation
extension | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression, the class of objects that an expression refers to, the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos |
| reference | the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to, he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes |
inertial reference frame
inertial frame | a coordinate system in which Newton's first law of motion is valid |
address computer address
reference | (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored |
trade book
trade edition | a book intended for general readership |
reference book
reference reference work
book of facts | a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts, he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic |
| reference manual | a manual containing information organized in a summary manner |
| fair-trade agreement | an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer |
| trade bill | a statute that would regulate foreign trade |
| fair-trade act | formerly a state law that protected manufacturers from priceutting by allowing them to set minimum retail prices for their merchandise, eliminated by the United States Congress in |
| trade magazine | a magazine published for and read by members of a particular trade group |
trade barrier
import barrier | any regulation or policy that restricts international trade |
embargo
trade embargo
trade stoppage | a government order imposing a trade barrier |
trade policy
national trading policy | a government's policy controlling foreign trade |
| trade secret | a secret (method or device or formula) that gives a manufacturer an advantage over the competition |
| character reference character reference | a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability, requests for character references are all too often answered evasively |
| trade-last | a compliment that I heard about you that I offer to trade for a compliment you have heard about me |
citation cite
acknowledgment credit reference mention quotation | a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage, the student's essay failed to list several important citations, the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book, the article includes mention of similar clinical cases |
| mention reference | a remark that calls attention to something or someone, she made frequent mention of her promotion, there was no mention of it, the speaker made several references to his wife |
trade name
brand name
brand
marque | a name given to a product or service |
anatomical reference
anatomical | an expression that relates to anatomy |
reference point
point of reference
reference | an indicator that orients you generally, it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved |
| reference source | a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to, he carried an armful of references back to his desk, he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation |
business cycle
trade cycle | recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline |
| combination in restraint of trade | (law) any monopoly or contract or combination or conspiracy intended to restrain commerce (which are illegal according to antitrust laws of the United States) |
apparel industry
garment industry
fashion industry
fashion business
rag trade | makers and sellers of fashionable clothing |