trade
noun
the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries.
am trading
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present progressiveof trade (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The woman put out her hand deprecatingly and said, "I am trading for it."
From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill
I hope that nobody will regard it as an invention, or will suppose that I am trading upon their sympathies on false pretences.
From Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by David Christie Murray
I am trading in iron, as my father has done, and laying up treasure on earth.
From The First Soprano by Mary Hitchcock
