Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company.

Frequented by traders.

Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician.

Carrying on commerce; acting on merely commercial principles.

Carrying on commerce; as applied to politics and public men, venal; having the character of an adventurer; having a price.

The act of one who carries on a trade; the business of carrying on trade.

Such changes in one's way of life are not decided as casually as trading in the old car for a model of the current year. – If You're Going to Live in the Country by Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley

Seas have I crossed, and new lands have I seen, and wealth have I won while trading; but a name is not won in ways like these. – The Iron Star And what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages by John Preston True

Then commenced a business of trading horses and watches. – Twenty Years of Hus'ling by J. P. Johnston

The trading portion of the population, always suspicious, became alarmed at this chance in the courier's hours, into which they inquired and soon discovered the cause. – Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, v10 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

The next morning after breakfast, they all left that camp; they put all their property into a large perouge and moved by water up the Wabash river to the old Kickapoo trading town, about ten miles from their sugar camp; they sent me by land and one Indian with me. – Narrative of the Captivity of William Biggs among the Kickapoo Indians in Illinois in 1788 by William Biggs

How else could I handle all that trading? – The Samurai Strategy by Thomas Hoover

Attracted by the attack, the other members of the trading party descended and surrounded the fallen man. – The Eternal Maiden by T. Everett Harré

Ceran St. Vrain, on a visit to the town, passed them close by but did not recognize the men he had seen for days at a time at his trading post on the South Platte. – Bring Me His Ears by Clarence E. Mulford

Leaving my boy in charge of some kind people in Durban, I started into " the Zulu"- a land with which I had already become well acquainted as a youth, there to carry on my wild life of trading and hunting. – Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard

He was trading with a friendly chief one day aboard his vessel. – The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne

And all merchant and trading vessels, employed in exchanging the products of different places, and thereby rendering the necessaries, conveniences, and comforts of human life more easy to be obtained, and more general, shall be allowed to pass free and unmolested. – Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson

The master of a great financial house, working day and night in an office, is not trading away his life for a system of railroads. – Dwellers in the Hills by Melville Davisson Post

As to myself, it is well known I don't approve of it, as I went with the interpreter to bring in those that were trading at that place. – Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding

I believe in trading wherever you can get the best terms. – The Major by Ralph Connor

You've been trading with me for years. – Jerry's Charge Account by Hazel Hutchins Wilson

Chicago had been a trading post, and to an extent was yet. – Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters

" I plan a trading trip to the Eastern Sea," he confided. – The Players by Everett B. Cole