trade edition
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of trade edition
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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The art was reissued later that year by Random House in a one-volume trade edition, helping to make Kent’s turbulent engravings—of Captain Ahab, the Pequod’s crew and the elusive white whale—iconic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
The cheapest of them is the trade edition at $250.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 18, 2017
So for me, it’s a cool ego thing — I get to be in the trade edition.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2011
It will be published in a trade edition by Yale in due course.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2011
Whereas, if any other publisher should engage Ellis’s services for that portion, their trade edition would be worthless for ever.
From Tennyson and His Friends by Various
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