Trades Synonyms and Antonyms

Do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. sells
  2. vends
  3. purchases
  4. retails
  5. shops
  6. peddles
  7. markets
  8. patronizes
  9. deals
  10. handles
Exchange or give (something) in exchange for
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. swaps
  2. switches
  3. exchanges
  4. plies
  5. substitutes
  6. negotiates
  7. shifts
  8. swops
  9. interchanges
  10. barters
  11. commutes
  12. changes
People who perform a particular kind of skilled work
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. businesses
  2. crafts
  3. enterprises
  4. traffics
  5. patronages
  6. customs
Antonyms:
  1. funs
  2. pastimes
  3. entertainments
A particular instance of buying or selling
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. traffics
  2. contracts
  3. barters
  4. industries
  5. businesses
  6. deals
The act of exchanging or substituting
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. swaps
  2. switches
  3. shifts
  4. exchanges
  5. changes
  6. transpositions
  7. substitutions
  8. commutations
The business of buying and selling commodities, products, or services; commerce.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. businesses

Trades Sentence Examples

  • The building trade and its allied trades are also active.

  • He also became president of the Norwich and District Trades and Labour Council.

  • When the excitement consequent on the gold finds had subsided, there was a considerable reaction against the claims of Labour, and this was greatly helped by the congested state of the labour market; but the principle of an eight-hours day made progress, and was conceded in several trades.

  • The Lord Mayor (q.v.) is elected by the Court of Aldermen from two aldermen nominated in the Court of Common Hall by the Livery, an electorate drawn from the members of the ancient trade gilds or Livery Companies (q.v.), which, through their control over the several trades or manufactures, had formerly an influence over the government of the city which from the time of Edward III.

  • The trades unions say I can't use my sons.

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