Meaning

1 senses
  1. (not comparable)Of a product, produced for sale in the ordinary bulk retail trade and hence of only the most basic quality.

Examples

496 sentences
  1. He is engaged in foreign trade.

    Він зайнятий у сфері міжнародної торгівлі. — deniko

  2. Would you like to trade seats?

    Ти не хотів би помінятися місцями? — deniko

  3. He is a jack-of-all-trades.

    Він майстер на всі руки. — deniko

    ruОн мастер на все руки. — Helginka

    deEr ist ein Tausendsassa. — Dalyup

  4. Tom is a jack of all trades.

    Том — майстер на всі руки. — deniko

  5. Tom traded his camera for a guitar.

    Том обміняв свій фотоапарат на гітару. — deniko

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseati

From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *tradu, from Proto-Germanic *tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to tread, walk, step, run”).

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Word family

2 related words

Collocations

6 patterns
  • trade places with
  • lot of trade
  • of all trades
  • of trade with
  • trade places
  • all trades

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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