Traded vs Exchanged - What's the difference?
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(trade)
(uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
(countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
(countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
* 1989 , (Bruce Pandolfini), Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps , ISBN 0671656902, "Glossary" section, page 225 [http://books.google.com/books?id=pocVITTr8tMC&pg=PA225&dq=trade]:
* 2009 , Elliott Kalb and Mark Weinstein, The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All Time , ISBN 9781602396784, page 60 [http://books.google.com/books?id=nQd8MHuaXysC&pg=PA60&dq=trade]:
(countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
(countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
(countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
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(uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
(mostly, in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
* James Horsburgh
(only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
(uncountable, LGBT, slang) A brief sexual encounter.
(obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
* Dryden
(mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
(obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
* Surrey
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.
* Udall
* Spenser
* Massinger
* Shakespeare
To engage in trade
* Arbuthnot
To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
To give (something) in exchange for.
To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
* Shakespeare
(exchange)
An act of exchanging or trading.
A place for conducting trading.
A telephone exchange.
(telephony, US only? ) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before the introduction of area codes).
A conversation.
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(chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another
# The loss of a relatively minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook
(obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
To trade or barter.
To replace with, as a substitute.
As verbs the difference between traded and exchanged
is that traded is past tense of trade while exchanged is past tense of exchange.traded
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(head)Anagrams
*trade
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(wikipedia trade)Noun
- I did no trades with them once the rumors started.
- EXCHANGE — A trade or swap of no material profit to either side.
- When Golden State matched the Knicks' offer sheet, the Warriors and Knicks worked out a trade that sent King to New York for Richardson.
- The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.
- It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade .
- He learned his trade as an apprentice.
- Even before noon there was considerable trade .
- They rode the trades going west.
- the north-east trade
- Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades .
- Josh picked up some trade last night.
- the house and household goods, his trade of war
- A postern with a blind wicket there was, / A common trade to pass through Priam's house.
- Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade .
- Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, / Some way of common trade , where subjects' feet / May hourly trample on their sovereign's head.
- the right trade of religion
- There those five sisters had continual trade .
- Long did I love this lady, / Long was my travel, long my trade to win her.
- Thy sin's not accidental but a trade .
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* (English Citations of "trade")Derived terms
* antitrade/anti-trade * balance of trade * basket trade * block trade * bullet trade * carbon trade * carriage trade * carry trade * carousel trade * cash and carry trade * coasting trade * countertrade * cross-trade * day trade * fair trade * free trade * horse trade * invisible trade * jack of all trades * motor trade * off-trade * on-trade * out trade * paper trade * rag trade * restraint of trade * rough trade * reverse of trade * slave trade * spot trade * stock-in-trade * terms of trade * trade barrier * trade card * trade deficit * trade dispute * trade fair * trade magazine * trade mark/trademark * trade name * trade newspaper * trade-off * trade route * trade secret * trade show * trade standard * trade surplus * trade term * trade union * trade war * trade wind * trader * tradesman * tradesperson * uptick trade * visible tradeSynonyms
* (the commercial exchange of goods and services) commerce * (the collective people who perform a particular kind of skilled work) business * (the skilled practice of a practical occupation) craft * (An instance of buying and selling) deal, barter * (the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers) patronageVerb
(trad)- This company trades in precious metal.
- a free port, where nations resorted with their goods and traded
- Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?
- How did you dare to trade and traffic with Macbeth?
Quotations
* (English Citations of "trade")Derived terms
* insider trading * trade in * tradableSynonyms
* (engage in the trade of) deal * (be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions) * (give something in exchange for) exchange, swap, switch * (do business) do business, make a dealSee also
* buy * sellAnagrams
* ----exchanged
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(head)exchange
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(wikipedia exchange)Etymology 1
From (etyl) eschaunge, from (etyl) eschaunge, from (etyl) eschange (whence modern French ). Spelling later changed on the basis of ex- in English.Noun
(en noun)- All in all, it was an even exchange .
- an exchange of cattle for grain
- The stock exchange is open for trading.
- The 555 exchange is reserved for use by the phone company, which is why it's often used in films.
- NPA-NXX-1234 is standard format, where NPA is the area code and NXX is the exchange .
- After an exchange with the manager, we were no wiser.
Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
- “Why bother with the daily grind when you can go to Mosul, get paid $400 a month, get a wife – and live an Islamic way,” went an exchange between two men overheard by a fellow passenger in a taxi. Rumour has it that a woman whose husband died fighting with Isis now receives a generous widow’s pension from jihadi coffers.
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Derived terms
* bet exchange * bill of exchange * exchange rate * foreign exchange * foreign exchange market * ion exchange * ion exchange chromatography * ion exchange resin * key exchange * link exchange * local exchange carrier * means of exchange * medium of exchange * private branch exchange * stock exchange * telephone exchangeEtymology 2
From (etyl) eschaungen, from (etyl) eschaungier, eschanger, from the (etyl) verb eschangier, ).Verb
(exchang)- I'll gladly exchange my place for yours.
- I'd like to exchange this shirt for one in a larger size.
- Since his arrest, the mob boss has exchanged a mansion for a jail cell.