From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trade \Trade\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Traded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trading}.]
1. To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.
A free port, where nations . . . resorted with their goods and traded. --Arbuthnot.
2. To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
3. To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.
How did you dare to trade and traffic with Macbeth? --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company.
2. Frequented by traders. [R.] ''They on the trading flood.'' --Milton.
3. Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: buying or selling securities or commodities
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "trading": abalienation, agency, alienation, amortization, amortizement, assignation, assignment, backscratching, bargain and sale, barter, bartering, bequeathal, brokerage, business, buying and selling, cession, commercial, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, conveyance, conveyancing, dealing, deeding, deliverance, delivery, demise, disposal, disposition, doing business, enfeoffment, even trade, exchange, give-and-take, giving, horse trading, industrial, interchange, jobbing, lease and release, logrolling, mercantile, merchandising, merchant, pork barrel, retail, retailing, sale, settlement, settling, surrender, swap, swapping, switch, trade, trafficking, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, vesting, wheeling and dealing, wholesale, wholesaling
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