trade rat

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Origin of trade rat

First recorded in 1910–15

Words nearby trade rat

trade on, trade paper, trade paperback, trade plate, trader, trade rat, trade reference, trade route, Tradescant, tradescantia, trade school

How to use trade rat in a sentence

Its graceful hotels and beautiful restaurants are totally dependent on the tourist trade.
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Dance instructors run a lucrative trade offering private lessons to couples before their wedding receptions, typically the tango.
Iran’s Becoming a Footloose Nation as Dance Lessons Spread|IranWire|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Rebels in Africa trade in children to fund their conflicts and obtain child soldiers.
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The Canterbury Tales was, Strohm writes, “one of the volumes around which the new trade would organize itself.”
A Year In The Life of The Canterbury Tales’ Storied Beginnings|Wendy Smith|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

There was really only one good reason to maintain the embargo: Trade with Cuba strengthens the Castros.
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Next morning Judy shouted that there was a rat in the nursery, and thus he forgot to tell her the wonderful news.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
The result of the restoration of trade, banking, and credit to earlier and more normal conditions has been steadily apparent.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
The doctrine of international free trade, albeit the most conspicuous of its applications, was but one case under the general law.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
He had repeated till he was thrice weary the statement that "the Cat lay on the Mat and the Rat came in."
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
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