trade
要点商業、職業、売買する,商う、交換する
意味
- 商業,商売
- 交換
- 職業
- 《the trade》《集合的に》同業者
- 《the trade》…業[界]
- 《形容詞[句]を伴って》売り上げ高;《集合的に》顧客,得意先
- 《the trades》《話》=trade wind
- (…を)売買する,商う《+in+名》
- 交換する
- (…と)商売を営む,貿易をする《+with+名》
- (人と)〈物〉を交換する《+名〈物〉+with+名〈人〉》;(物と)〈物〉を交換する《+名〈物〉+for+名〈物〉》
例文
We should not put restrictions on foreign trade.
外国貿易に制限を加えるべきではない。
His work is concerned with international trade.
彼の仕事は貿易に関係している。
Trade barriers were lifted after the war ended.
貿易障壁は戦争終結後解除されました。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *tradu, from Proto-Germanic *tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to tread, walk, step, run”). Cognate with Dutch trade, tra (“path, trail, course, trade”), German Low German Traad (“track, wagon trail”), Luxembourgish Tratt (“step, pace”), Icelandic tröð (“a lane between fences, enclosure, pen”).