Interchange vs. Trade — What's the Difference?

(of two or more people) exchange (things) with each other

Trade involves the transfer of goods or services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market.

The action of interchanging people or things

The action of buying and selling goods and services

Alternation

A job requiring manual skills and special training

A road junction designed on several levels so that traffic streams do not intersect

A trade wind

A station where passengers may change from one railway line, bus service, etc. to another

Buy and sell goods and services

To switch each of (two things) into the place of the other.

Exchange (something) for something else, typically as a commercial transaction

To give and receive mutually; exchange.

The business of buying and selling commodities, products, or services; commerce.

To cause to succeed each other in a series or pattern; alternate

A branch or kind of business

To change places with each other.

The people working in or associated with a business or industry

To succeed each other; alternate.

The activity or volume of buying or selling

The act or process of interchanging.

An exchange of one thing for another

A highway intersection that employs ramps and overpasses or underpasses to permit traffic to move freely from one road to another without crossing another line of traffic.

An occupation, especially one requiring skilled labor; craft

(transitive) to switch (each of two things)

Trades The trade winds.

(transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange

To engage in buying and selling for profit.

(intransitive) to swap or change places

To make an exchange of one thing for another.

(transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary

To be offered for sale or be sold

(transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).

To shop or buy regularly

An act of interchanging.

To give in exchange for something else

A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.

To buy and sell (stocks, for example).

(rail transport) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.

To pass back and forth

To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly offices and services.

Of or relating to trade or commerce.

To cause to follow alternately; to intermingle; to vary; as, to interchange cares with pleasures.

Relating to, used by, or serving a particular trade

To make an interchange; to alternate.

Of or relating to books that are primarily published to be sold commercially, as in bookstores.

The act of mutually changing; the act of mutually giving and receiving; exchange; as, the interchange of civilities between two persons.

(uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.

The mutual exchange of commodities between two persons or countries; barter; commerce.

(countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.

Alternate succession; alternation; a mingling.

(countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.

An intersection between highways, having two or more levels and a series of connecting roadways so that traffic on one highway may pass over or under the other highway without crossing through the line of traffic, and vehicles may pass from one highway to the other while traffic on both highways continues uninterrupted. A common interchange is the cloverleaf.

(countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.

A junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams

(countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.

Mutual interaction; the activity of interchanging or reciprocating

(countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.

Reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money especially the currencies of different countries;

An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.

Give to, and receive from, one another;

The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.

Cause to change places;

Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.

Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)

(only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.

A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)

Instruments of any occupation.

(mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.

(obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.

(obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.

(ambitransitive) To engage in trade.

To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.

To give (something) in exchange (for).

(transitive) To mutually exchange (something) (with).

To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.

(ambitransitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.

(intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).

(transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.

Of a product, produced for sale in the ordinary bulk retail trade and hence of only the most basic quality.

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.

Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.

Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.

The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician.

Instruments of any occupation.

A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.

The trade winds.

Refuse or rubbish from a mine.

To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.

To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.

To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; - usually followed by with.

To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.

The commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services;

People who perform a particular kind of skilled work;

An equal exchange;

The skilled practice of a practical occupation;

A particular instance of buying or selling;

The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers;

Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator;

Engage in the trade of;

Turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase;

Be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions;

Exchange or give (something) in exchange for

Do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood;

Relating to or used in or intended for trade or commerce;