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How to spell trade

Trade is spelled T-R-A-D-E.

hear ittrade/treɪd/verbSounds

What it means: To exchange items with someone.

In a sentence: Let's trade stickers at recess today.

Same family: trader, trading, tradeable, tradesman, trade-off. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Trade” comes from an old word meaning “track” or “path,” because traders followed regular routes; over time it came to mean the buying and selling itself.

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