Trade

1. v. Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
2. v. A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
3. v. Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
4. v. Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
5. v. Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.
6. 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.
7. v. Instruments of any occupation.
8. 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.
9. v. The trade winds.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.