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(intr, preposition) to exploit or take advantage ofhe traded on her endless patience

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Words nearby trade on

trade language, trade-last, trademark, trade name, trade-off, trade on, trade paper, trade paperback, trade plate, trader, trade rat

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How to use trade on in a sentence

Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
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Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
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You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
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It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
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Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?
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The result of the restoration of trade, banking, and credit to earlier and more normal conditions has been steadily apparent.
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The doctrine of international free trade, albeit the most conspicuous of its applications, was but one case under the general law.
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I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
But they have tied their credit system in the bonds of narrow banking laws and their trade in those of a cramping tariff.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
So far we have not made great progress in securing Europe's Latin-American trade.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips

Other Idioms and Phrases with trade on

trade on

Profit by, exploit, as in The children of celebrities often trade on their family names. [Late 1800s]