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Bargaining vs Trading - What's the difference?

bargaining | trading |

As verbs the difference between bargaining and trading

is that bargaining is while trading is .

As nouns the difference between bargaining and trading

is that bargaining is the act of one who bargains while trading is the carrying on of trade.

As an adjective trading is

carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade.

bargaining

English

Verb

(head)
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining ". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who bargains.
  • * Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times (book 2, page 51)
  • All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings , and blackmailings.

    trading

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade.
  • a trading company
  • (obsolete, rare) Frequented by traders.
  • * Milton
  • they on the trading flood
  • (obsolete) venal; corrupt; jobbing
  • a trading politician

    Noun

  • The carrying on of trade.
  • * Bible, Revelations
  • But thy riches and thy tradings , thy merchandise, and they who trade thy traffic, shall fall into the heart of the seas

    Derived terms

    * program trading (Webster 1913)

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