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2. Noun. (context: only as plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator. ¹

3. Noun. (context: only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries. ¹

4. Verb. (third-person singular of trade) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trades

1. trade [v] - See also: trade

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trades

Literary usage of Trades

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"1882, as follows: ' Don't cancel the July trades. My attorneys here believe the tender we made is good and can be enforced. JB White. ..."

2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1921)
"Powell, Supervisor of Street trades, Milwaukee Public Schools The Wisconsin Street trades Law, forbidding boys under twelve, and girls under eighteen years ..."

3. Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin by University of Wisconsin (1907)
"collective bargaining in the building trades has not been materially affected by the National Council. The close adjustment of labor organizations to the ..."

4. Annual Report (1903)
"CHAPTER I. WAGES IN THE CLOTHING trades. For the purpose of supplementing the statistics of earnings in home industries in New York City, the results of ..."

5. Annual ReportLabor laws and legislation (1906)
"I. Number and membership of labor organizations, March and September: By industries, trades and localities. II. Number and membership of labor organizations ..."

6. The North American Review by Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1891)
"trades-UNIONS FOR WOMEN. BY LADY DILKE. THE history of trades-unionism among women in England is the history of the Women's trades-Union League, ..."

7. A History of Our Own Times by Justin McCarthy (1901)
"trades-UNIONS. ENGLISH society was much distressed and disturbed about the same time by the stories of outrages more cruel, and of a conspiracy more odious ..."

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