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Trading vs Commercial - What's the difference?

trading | commercial |

As adjectives the difference between trading and commercial

is that trading is carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade while commercial is of or pertaining to commerce.

As nouns the difference between trading and commercial

is that trading is the carrying on of trade while commercial is an advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.

As a verb trading

is present participle of lang=en.

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)

    Anagrams

    *

    commercial

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.

    • Hyponyms

    * infomercial

    Hypernyms

    * advertisement

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to commerce.
  • * 1900 , , Chapter I,
    • A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.

    Related terms

    * commerce * commercialize * precommercial

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