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Trading vs Exchange - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between trading and exchange

is that trading is venal; corrupt; jobbing while exchange is the thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.

As verbs the difference between trading and exchange

is that trading is present participle of lang=en while exchange is to trade or barter.

As nouns the difference between trading and exchange

is that trading is the carrying on of trade while exchange is an act of exchanging or trading.

As an adjective trading

is carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade.

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

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    exchange

    English

    (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)
  • An act of exchanging or trading.
    • All in all, it was an even exchange .
    an exchange of cattle for grain
  • A place for conducting trading.
    • The stock exchange is open for 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).
    • 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 .
  • A conversation.
    • After an exchange with the manager, we were no wiser.
  • * 2014 , Ian Black, " 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.
  • (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.
    • (Shakespeare)
    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 exchange

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) eschaungen, from (etyl) eschaungier, eschanger, from the (etyl) verb eschangier, ).

    Verb

    (exchang)
  • To trade or barter.
    • I'll gladly exchange my place for yours.
  • To replace with, as a substitute.
    • 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.
    Derived terms
    * exchange flesh * exchanger * exchange vows

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