Interchanged and Trade

noun

• The commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services.
  • usage: "Venice was an important center of trade with the East"; "they are accused of conspiring to constrain trade"
• The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
  • usage: "he learned his trade as an apprentice"
  • synonyms: craft
• The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
  • usage: "even before noon there was a considerable patronage"
  • synonyms: patronage
• A particular instance of buying or selling.
  • usage: "it was a package deal"; "I had no further trade with him"; "he's a master of the business deal"
  • synonyms: deal, business deal
• People who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
  • usage: "he represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the trade"
  • synonyms: craft
• Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
  • usage: "they rode the trade winds going west"
  • synonyms: trade wind
• An equal exchange.
  • usage: "we had no money so we had to live by barter"
  • synonyms: barter, swap, swop

verb

• Engage in the trade of.
  • usage: "he is merchandising telephone sets"
  • synonyms: merchandise
• Turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase.
  • usage: "trade in an old car for a new one"
  • synonyms: trade in
• Be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
  • usage: "The stock traded around $20 a share"
• Exchange or give (something) in exchange for.
  • synonyms: swap, swop, switch
• Do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
  • usage: "She deals in gold"; "The brothers sell shoes"
  • synonyms: deal, sell

• (v.) A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
• (v.) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
• (v.) Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
• (v.) Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.
• imp. of Tread.
• (v.i.) To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
• (v.i.) 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.
• (v.) 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.
• (v.) Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
• (v.i.) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.
• (v.t.) To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
• (v.) Instruments of any occupation.
• (v.) The trade winds.
• (v.) 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.

Trade is an oral (or electronic) transaction involving one party buying a security from another party. Once a trade is consummated, it is considered "done" or final. Settlement occurs 1-5 business days later.