1. The business of buying and selling commodities, products, or services; commerce. See Synonyms at business.
2. A branch or kind of business: the women's clothing trade.
3. The people working in or associated with a business or industry: writers, editors, and other members of the publishing trade.
4. The activity or volume of buying or selling: The trade in stocks was brisk all morning.
5. An exchange of one thing for another: baseball teams making a trade of players.
6. An occupation, especially one requiring skilled labor; craft: the building trades.
7. trades The trade winds.
The People were trading a lot for other goods.
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Banging prostitutes. Or providing monetary compensation for the services of prostitutes. Ipso Facto.
I went down to Pike St. at 1am last night for trading.
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A Down syndrome version of the word “retarded”. Used to describe something funny or weird.
Your mate shaves his head bald and you see him.

“Fucking traded bald head
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A trade is a nigga that is on the low about his sexuality. He gets sex both ways and is very masculine. I hard faggot.
Look at that Trade right there. He looking over here hard!
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Example of a gay one-night stand. Typically used in the South.
That big queen Josh hooked up with some trade and got laid yesterday.
by jesse July 8, 2003
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A man who is presumed to be heterosexual in public, but dives in balls and brown eyes behind closed doors.

A term used in the lgbtq+ community to describe a “straight-passing” man who gets down on the low; pays or receives money for sex.
Wheew honey look at trade over there in them gym shorts
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Magazines centered around a certain industry, in Entertainment, Variety and Hollywood Reporter
Did this weeks trades come in I need to know the box office numbers for this week
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