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Trade vs. Enterprise — What's the Difference?

Trade vs. Enterprise — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Trade and Enterprise

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Trade

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.

Enterprise

A project or undertaking, especially a bold or complex one
A joint enterprise between French and Japanese companies

Trade

The action of buying and selling goods and services
A significant increase in foreign trade
A move to ban all trade in ivory

Enterprise

A business or company
A state-owned enterprise

Trade

A job requiring manual skills and special training
The fundamentals of the construction trade
He's a carpenter by trade
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Enterprise

An undertaking, especially one of some scope, complication, and risk.

Trade

A trade wind
The north-east trades

Enterprise

A business organization.

Trade

Buy and sell goods and services
Middlemen trading in luxury goods

Enterprise

Industrious, systematic activity, especially when directed toward profit
Private enterprise is basic to capitalism.

Trade

Exchange (something) for something else, typically as a commercial transaction
They trade mud-shark livers for fish oil

Enterprise

Willingness to undertake new ventures; initiative
"Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs" (Henry David Thoreau).

Trade

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

Enterprise

A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
The government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are a group of financial services corporations which have been created by the United States Congress.
A micro-enterprise is defined as a company or business having 5 or fewer employees and a low seed capital.

Trade

A branch or kind of business
The women's clothing trade.

Enterprise

An undertaking, venture, or project, especially a daring and courageous one.
Biosphere 2 was a scientific enterprise aimed at the exploration of the complex web of interactions within life systems.

Trade

The people working in or associated with a business or industry
Writers, editors, and other members of the publishing trade.

Enterprise

(uncountable) A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.
He has shown great enterprise throughout his early career.

Trade

The activity or volume of buying or selling
The trade in stocks was brisk all morning.

Enterprise

(uncountable) Active participation in projects. en

Trade

An exchange of one thing for another
Baseball teams making a trade of players.

Enterprise

(intransitive) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

Trade

An occupation, especially one requiring skilled labor; craft
The building trades.

Enterprise

(transitive) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.

Trade

Trades The trade winds.

Enterprise

(transitive) To treat with hospitality; to entertain.

Trade

To engage in buying and selling for profit.

Enterprise

That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise.
Their hands can not perform their enterprise.

Trade

To make an exchange of one thing for another.

Enterprise

Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.

Trade

To be offered for sale or be sold
Stocks traded at lower prices this morning.

Enterprise

To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
The business must be enterprised this night.
What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!

Trade

To shop or buy regularly
Trades at the local supermarket.

Enterprise

To treat with hospitality; to entertain.
Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprise.

Trade

To give in exchange for something else
Trade farm products for manufactured goods.
Will trade my ticket for yours.

Enterprise

To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

Trade

To buy and sell (stocks, for example).

Enterprise

A purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness);
He had doubts about the whole enterprise

Trade

To pass back and forth
We traded jokes.

Enterprise

An organization created for business ventures;
A growing enterprise must have a bold leader

Trade

Of or relating to trade or commerce.

Enterprise

Readiness to embark on bold new ventures

Trade

Relating to, used by, or serving a particular trade
A trade magazine.

Trade

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

Trade

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

Trade

(countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
I did no trades with them once the rumors started.

Trade

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

Trade

(countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.

Trade

(countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade.

Trade

(countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
He learned his trade as an apprentice.

Trade

An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
After failing his entrance exams, he decided to go into a trade.
Most veterans went into trade when the war ended.

Trade

The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
Even before noon there was considerable trade.

Trade

Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
They rode the trades going west.

Trade

(only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades.

Trade

A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
Josh picked up some trade last night.

Trade

Instruments of any occupation.

Trade

(mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.

Trade

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

Trade

(obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.

Trade

(ambitransitive) To engage in trade.
This company trades (in) precious metal.

Trade

To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
Apple is trading at $200.
ExxonMobil trades on the NYSE.
The stock is trading rich relative to its sector.

Trade

To give (something) in exchange (for).
Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?

Trade

(transitive) To mutually exchange (something) (with).
The rival schoolboys traded insults.

Trade

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

Trade

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

Trade

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

Trade

(transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.

Trade

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

Trade

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
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' feetMay hourly trample on their sovereign's head.

Trade

Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
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.

Trade

Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
Have you any further trade with us?

Trade

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

Trade

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.
Accursed usury was all his trade.
The homely, slighted, shepherd's trade.
I will instruct thee in my trade.

Trade

Instruments of any occupation.
The house and household goods, his trade of war.

Trade

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.

Trade

The trade winds.

Trade

Refuse or rubbish from a mine.

Trade

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.
A free port, where nations . . . resorted with their goods and traded.

Trade

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

Trade

To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; - usually followed by with.
How did you dare to trade and traffic with Macbeth?

Trade

To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
They traded the persons of men.
To dicker and to swop, to trade rifles and watches.

Trade

The commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services;
Venice was an important center of trade with the East
They are accused of conspiring to constrain trade

Trade

People who perform a particular kind of skilled work;
He represented the craft of brewers
As they say in the trade

Trade

An equal exchange;
We had no money so we had to live by barter

Trade

The skilled practice of a practical occupation;
He learned his trade as an apprentice

Trade

A particular instance of buying or selling;
It was a package deal
I had no further trade with him
He's a master of the business deal

Trade

The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers;
Even before noon there was a considerable patronage

Trade

Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator;
They rode the trade winds going west

Trade

Engage in the trade of;
He is merchandising telephone sets

Trade

Turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase;
Trade in an old car for a new one

Trade

Be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions;
The stock traded around $20 a share

Trade

Exchange or give (something) in exchange for

Trade

Do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood;
She deals in gold
The brothers sell shoes

Trade

Relating to or used in or intended for trade or commerce;
A trade fair
Trade journals
Trade goods

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