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Trade vs. Transaction — What's the Difference?

Trade vs. Transaction — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Trade and Transaction

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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.

Transaction

An instance of buying or selling something
In an ordinary commercial transaction a delivery date is essential

Trade

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

Transaction

Published reports of proceedings at the meetings of a learned society.

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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Transaction

An input message to a computer system dealt with as a single unit of work
Transaction processing

Trade

A trade wind
The north-east trades

Transaction

The act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.

Trade

Buy and sell goods and services
Middlemen trading in luxury goods

Transaction

Something transacted, especially a business agreement or exchange.

Trade

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

Transaction

Communication involving two or more people that affects all those involved; personal interaction
"a rich sense of the transaction between writer and reader" (William Zinsser).

Trade

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

Transaction

Transactions A record of business conducted at a meeting; proceedings.

Trade

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

Transaction

The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
The transaction was made on Friday with the supplier.

Trade

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

Transaction

A deal or business agreement. en

Trade

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

Transaction

An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.
I made the transaction with the vendor as soon as she showed me the pearls.

Trade

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

Transaction

(finance) The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.

Trade

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

Transaction

(computing) An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).

Trade

Trades The trade winds.

Transaction

(especially in plural) A record of the proceedings of a learned society.

Trade

To engage in buying and selling for profit.

Transaction

(transactional analysis) A social interaction.

Trade

To make an exchange of one thing for another.

Transaction

The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.

Trade

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

Transaction

That which is done; an affair; as, the transactions on the exchange.

Trade

To shop or buy regularly
Trades at the local supermarket.

Transaction

An adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement.

Trade

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

Transaction

The act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities);
No transactions are possible without him
He has always been honest is his dealings with me

Trade

To buy and sell (stocks, for example).

Trade

To pass back and forth
We traded jokes.

Trade

Of or relating to trade or commerce.

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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