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Example sentences for "trade"

Lexicographically close words:
tractor; tractors; tracts; tractu; tractus; traded; tradeing; trader; traders; trades
  1. Every scientific genius in the world directs his attention to increasing power units in the struggle for world trade on which we are entering following a World War.

  2. The common parowax I think is the grade that is known in the trade as 120.

  3. Manila-Acapulco trade by Manuel Azcarraga y Palmero in his Libertad de comercio en las islas Filipinas (Madrid, 1872), pp.

  4. The matter was finally settled, however, by the royal decree of 1734, obtained through the efforts of the Manila agents at the court, which revoked the viceroy's orders and permitted the silk trade to continue.

  5. Citizens of Nueva España are prohibited under heavy penalties from participating in this trade as shippers, of either goods or money.

  6. The only way to check this procedure is to prohibit entirely to Manila the trade in Chinese silks; and Cadiz offers to make up this lack by ceding to Manila the entire spice trade in Nueva España.

  7. Hitchin was noted during the sixteenth century for its trade in wood and malt.

  8. It was a place of considerable trade at the time of the Conquest.

  9. Malting, brewing and general trade in corn and its products form the larger part of the industries of Hertford.

  10. WARE was for a long period, and is perhaps now, the centre of the malt trade in Herts, but brickmaking is also extensively carried on.

  11. During the last four decades several large straw hat manufactories have been erected in St. Albans, and the trade enlarged, although the conditions of production are altered.

  12. The trade in malt is large for so small a place.

  13. He ain't satisfied he is got such a big trade there, Trinkmann, but he must go to work and get a partner, a feller by the name Salonkin, which he pays Ringentaub two thousand dollars for a half interest in the business.

  14. On the subway he opened wide the Tobacco Trade Journal, thrust his legs forward into the aisle, and grew oblivious to his surroundings in perusing the latest quotations of leaf tobacco.

  15. You got a limited trade there, Meiselson; because when it comes to toilet soaps, understand me, how many people takes it so particular?

  16. Well, young man," he said in pompous accents, "how go the busy marts of trade these days?

  17. When a feller is selling toilet soaps and perfumeries, Mr. Shimko, he couldn't see his trade only at certain hours of the day.

  18. These prisoners our chief offered to trade for the Indians whom the soldiers had captured at the massacre in the tent.

  19. We had little use for mules, and if we could not trade them for something of value, we killed them.

  20. After our return many of the warriors had gone on a hunt and some of them had gone north to trade for blankets from the Navajo Indians.

  21. Then we made our camp near their camp, and they came to trade with us.

  22. The seizure of French goods in Dutch vessels had irritated the Netherlanders, and the Navigation Act passed in 1651 had taken away much of the trade done by them in English ports.

  23. They opposed his wish to annex more than two provinces of Norway, in order that the monopoly of the timber trade might not fall into his hands.

  24. He wanted to increase the trade of the country by strengthening its maritime power, and he wanted to uphold the cause of God in Europe by the formation of a great Protestant alliance against what he believed to be the aggressive Papacy.

  25. No doubt, like most of the other Phoenician cities in Cyprus, it was Hellenised gradually; but there must have been many centuries during which it was an emporium of Phoenician trade and a centre of Phoenician influence.

  26. The Phoenician trade with Babylonia and Assyria was carried on probably by caravans, which traversed the Syrian desert by way of Tadmor or Palmyra, and struck the Euphrates about Circesium.

  27. The nature of the Phoenician trade with the Canaries, or Fortunate Islands, is not stated by any ancient author, and can only be conjectured.

  28. She monopolised the trade in Egyptian commodities from her foundation.

  29. West of Citium, also upon the south coast, and in a favourable situation for trade with the interior, was Amathus.

  30. Heeren is entirely justified in his conclusion that the land trade of the Phoenicians was conducted by "large companies or caravans, since it could only have been carried on in this way.

  31. The sea trade of the Phoenicians was still more extensive than their land traffic.

  32. But, honestly, I wouldn't trade what I learned under Professor Petey Simmons, warm boy and official gadfly to the Faculty, for all the Lat.

  33. No, he didn't know whether they were going to put a tower on the Board of Trade or not.

  34. I was so busy for the first three days, wiring up the new students and putting through a trade on the Athletic secretaryship with the Delta Kap gang, that I couldn't pay any attention to the class elections.

  35. In former days there was seldom any need to go further than this; but the introduction of money and trade has, unfortunately, rendered this more frequently necessary.

  36. Like their European sisters, the Eskimo women are fond of novelties of all sorts, so that as soon as they arrive the stores do a roaring trade in them.

  37. The motive of the Europeans for supporting colonies in the country is that they may be a blessing to it; it is, of course, exclusively for the sake of the mission and of the natives that trade is carried on.

  38. Oh, you and I established free trade long ago, and I can always tell you the truth without pausing to weigh words as do legation attaches, and as father does when wily lobbyists intercept him on his way from committee rooms.

  39. You thought you were buying the papers; but, as they will not be delivered, the trade is off.

  40. The Malays of Ternate and other outlying islands are in league with the Dutch, and the trade with them is going to ruin.

  41. Thus poor persons will obtain relief, and the citizens [of the islands] will have the benefit of the entire amount of trade permitted to them, while those of Nueva Espana will be excluded from it.

  42. He describes briefly the city of Manila, the trade of Filipinas, the relations of the Spaniards with the Chinese and other peoples, and the voyage between Manila and Acapulco.

  43. He again urges that the trade in Chinese stuffs be suppressed; and makes recommendations as to the manner in which it should be conducted, describing various abuses and scandals which he has discovered therein.

  44. That deceit was brought about by his having entrusted to Cahapitan a quantity of goods in order to trade them for drugs of the country.

  45. The chief cause for the ruin of these islands is the great trade that the Sangleys carry on.

  46. Escalona declares that the trade of the islands with Mexico is neglected and unregulated, and thus the colonists are being financially ruined.

  47. The Japanese trade need not be considered in this question, as it is closed to the Spaniards on account of religious persecution; of this last and its effects Banuelos gives some account.

  48. They trade in Japon, in a port called Firando.

  49. The permission of trade to that sum would also be proportioned to the ability of the Manila merchants; and they would get more than five hundred thousand escudos in return for it, for the profits of that trade are exorbitant.

  50. Having made two hundred piastres by that transaction, he was anxious to trade you out of these others, and make a few hundred more.

  51. What followed, in fact, showed them that it was not a regular trade at all; but a little bit of gambling between the two sheiks, in which Terence and the three young blacks were to be the respective stakes.

  52. She told me that it was Lucille Delmont, and that she was by trade a fleuriste.

  53. Which is going to do the most for your trade and you, a handful of rich men, who wouldn't eat or wear the things you have to sell, owning the whole country, or a family farming on every quarter section?

  54. We thus have evidence in Domesday of the Irish trade with Chester, even in the days of Edward the Confessor.

  55. There the sea trade and now and then a little convenient piracy enriched them and concentrated the money into their hands.

  56. The sea trade on the Aegean Sea drifted more and more out of the hands of the Phoenicians into those of the Athenians.

  57. This was the situation encountered by capitalist production when it began to prepare, since the epoch of geographical discoveries, for the conquest of the world by international trade and manufacture.

  58. It never prevented the slave trade of Christians later on, neither of the Germans in the North, nor of the Venetians on the Mediterranean, nor the negro traffic of later years.

  59. By the purchase and sale of land, by continued division of labor between agriculture and industry, trade and navigation, the members of gentes, phratries and tribes very soon intermingled.

  60. For during the last period of the higher stage of barbarism the production of commodities and the resulting trade had well advanced.

  61. Trade arose at the same time, not only in the interior and on the tribal boundaries, but also in the form of maritime exchange.

  62. The South had prohibited private trade in cotton; the North forbade the sale of medical supplies to the Confederates.

  63. And must the hands of the people be tied because a fantastical outside world says that slavery and the slave trade are morally wrong?

  64. It was a duty to support and perpetuate slavery; the slave trade was immoral in its tendency and effects; the question, however, should be settled on the grounds of policy alone.

  65. Canby was of the opinion that the cotton trade aided the Confederates.

  66. Tuscaloosa said that the question of morality did not arise; the slave trade was not wrong.

  67. A druggist in middle Alabama determined to carry on a contraband trade in cotton and drugs.

  68. Colored persons skilled in trade were also divided into three classes at the following rates: men and women receiving the same, first class, $2.

  69. Not many other investments offered; there was little trade in negroes.

  70. The orders and advertisements of the army commissaries and quartermasters and conscript officers were printed each week; there were advertisements for substitutes, a few for runaway negroes, and a very few trade advertisements.

  71. Much of the trade was carried on by poor people who had a few bales of cotton and who were obliged to sell it or suffer from want.

  72. Diggers and shopkeepers are the two principal classes, and of these the latter are best off; for their trade is steady and lucrative, while the success of the miners is very uncertain.

  73. But you have told us nothing yet about the trade of the country," said Martin, "or its size, or anything of that sort.

  74. It forms a portion of that riff-raff of great towns who professionally cultivate immorality, and have chosen this trade with full responsibility, solely from horror of honest work and greed for lucre.

  75. Large numbers of the people were occupied in the trade of the Dneiper and with Greece, and still larger numbers with the trade of the Volga and the East.

  76. The security of internal conditions is scarcely less important, as foreign trade cannot prosper in a country whose internal conditions do not inspire confidence.

  77. The Brussels recommendations have been ignored, and conditions in Europe as regards its currencies, debts, trade and credit have deteriorated.

  78. Because God's blessing on a lawful trade may be desired and endeavoured, and he that should do all the good he can, may use what lawful means he can to be enabled to do it.

  79. Therefore have a special regard to the laws of the country where you live; both as to your trade itself, and as to the price of what you sell or buy.

  80. And it will be the trade of heretics, to insinuate into the more ductile people, especially as ministers of truth and righteousness, that have somewhat more excellent in knowledge or holiness, than the faithful ministers of Christ.

  81. May a tradesman drive a trade with borrowed money, when his success, and so his repayment, is utterly an uncertain thing?

  82. Take it as the chiefest extrinsical part of your religion to do good; and make it the trade or business of your lives, and not as a matter to be done on the by.

  83. It is lawful for the agents of lawful societies or trading companies to go (caeteris paribus, the persons being capable); because trade must be promoted, which tendeth to the common good of all countries.

  84. Accordingly, when trade is depressed and money is scarce, there is a rush to enter its ranks.

  85. This statement shows that the arrivals from American ports were nearly three times those from foreign countries, though of course this proportion is not borne out in tonnage, vessels on the deep sea trade averaging larger.

  86. As for the interior trade of the country, nearly all the population have either died from recent famine or have been killed off in the Mahdi's cause.

  87. Caveats, Copyrights for Books, Trade Marks, Reissues, Assignments, and Reports on Infringements of Patents.

  88. WE HEAR a great deal regarding the decline of our shipping interests, and so far as our shipping in the foreign trade is concerned it is unfortunately true," says The Boston Commercial Bulletin.


  89. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trade" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agency; alienate; alternate; art; assign; bandy; bargain; barter; bequeath; brokerage; business; calling; career; cede; change; commerce; commercial; commute; compensate; confer; consign; convey; cooperate; craft; custom; deal; dealing; dealings; deed; deliver; dicker; economic; employment; exchange; game; give; goodwill; haggle; hand; handicraft; industrial; industry; interchange; intercourse; job; jobbing; lifework; line; livelihood; market; marketing; merchandise; merchandising; merchant; metier; mission; mystery; negotiate; number; occupation; pass; passage; patronage; practice; profession; public; pursuit; racket; reciprocate; repute; requite; respond; retail; retailing; retaliate; return; sale; sell; settle; speciality; specialization; specialty; substitute; surrender; swap; swapping; switch; trade; trading; traffic; trafficking; transfer; transmit; transpose; truck; vocation; walk; wholesale; work


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    trade and; trade between the different; trade goods; trade name; trade union; trade unionism; trade unionists; trade winds; trade with; trades union; trades unions