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| Main Entry: | trade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | barter, business, clientele, commerce, contract, custom, deal, enterprise, exchange, industry, interchange, market, patronage, public, swap, traffic, transaction, truck, customers, dealing, merchantry, sales |
| Main Entry: | trade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | profession, work |
| Synonyms: | art, avocation, business, calling, craft, employment, game, handicraft, job, line, line of work, métier, occupation, position, pursuit, skill, thing*, vocation, nine-to-five |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun, pastime |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | art |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skill, creativity |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, aptitude, artistry, craft, dexterity, expertise, facility, imagination, ingenuity, knack, know-how, knowledge, mastery, method, profession, trade, craftsmanship, inventiveness, virtuosity |
| Antonyms: | lack, unskill |
| Main Entry: | bargain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | negotiate terms of sale or agreement |
| Synonyms: | agree, arrange, barter, buy, compromise, confer, contract, covenant, deal, dicker, haggle, palter, promise, sell, stipulate, trade, traffic, transact, do business, make terms |
| Main Entry: | barter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trade goods or services |
| Synonyms: | bargain, exchange, haggle, swap, trade, traffic, truck |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | job, profession |
| Synonyms: | bag*, calling, career, craft, dodge*, employment, field, function, game, line, livelihood, métier, occupation, pursuit, racket*, specialty, trade, vocation, work, biz, what one is into |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
| Antonyms: | avocation, recreation, unemployment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | calling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chosen profession |
| Synonyms: | art, business, career, craft, day gig, do*, dodge*, employment, gig*, go*, handicraft, hang*, life's work, lifework, line, mission, métier, nine-to-five, occupation, play, province, pursuit, racket*, rat race*, slot*, swindle*, trade, vocation, walk of life, work |
| Antonyms: | amusement, avocation, entertainment, hobby, recreation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | change |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | substitution; replacement |
| Synonyms: | conversion, exchange, flip-flop*, interchange, swap, switch, trade, turnaround |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | change |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | substitute, replace |
| Synonyms: | alternate, barter, convert, displace, exchange, interchange, invert, remove, reverse, shift, supplant, swap, trade, transmit, transpose, switch around |
| Main Entry: | clientele |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | customers of business |
| Synonyms: | audience, business, constituency, cortege, following, market, patronage, public, trade, clientage, clientry, clients, dependents, patrons, regulars |
| Antonyms: | management, ownership |
| Main Entry: | commerce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | business, dealings, economics, exchange, industry, marketing, trade, traffic, truck, dealing, merchandising, merchantry, retailing, wholesaling |
| Main Entry: | craft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business, discipline |
| Synonyms: | art, calling, career, employment, handicraft, line, métier, occupation, profession, pursuit, trade, vocation, work |
| Antonyms: | avocation, entertainment, recreation |
| Main Entry: | cut a deal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a deal |
| Synonyms: | bargain, barter, bicker, dicker*, negotiate, trade, do business, hammer out a deal, work out a deal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do business |
| Synonyms: | bargain, barter, bicker, dicker*, handle, negotiate, sell, stock, swap, trade, traffic, treat, buy and sell, hammer out deal, horse trade, knock down price, work out deal |
| Antonyms: | deny, refuse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dealings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business relations |
| Synonyms: | business, commerce, doings, intercourse, proceedings, sale, things, trade, traffic, truck, affairs, balls in air, concerns, irons in fire, matters, ropes, strings, transactions, wire pulling, wires |
| Main Entry: | demand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | question, request |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, bid, bidding, call, call for, charge, claim, clamor, command, entreaty, imposition, inquiry, insistence, interest, interrogation, lien, necessity, need, occasion, order, petition, plea, prayer, pursuit, requirement, requisition, rush, sale, search, stipulation, suit, supplication, trade, ultimatum, use, vogue, want, arrogation, counterclaim, entreatment, exaction, impetration, imploration, importunity, solicitation |
| Antonyms: | grant, offer, reply |
| Main Entry: | dicker |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bargain; argue about |
| Synonyms: | barter, cut a deal*, haggle*, huckster*, negotiate, palter, trade, buy and sell, chaffer, hammer out a deal, work out a deal |
| Antonyms: | agree |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | employment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | working for a living; |
| Synonyms: | assignment, avocation, business, calling, craft, employ, engaging, enlistment, enrollment, exercise, exertion, field, function, game*, hire, job, line, métier, mission, number, occupation, occupying, office, position, post, profession, pursuit, racket*, retaining, service, setup, situation, thing*, trade, using, vocation, work, awarding, carrying, commissioning, contracting, engagement in activity application, exercising, hiring, recruitment, servicing, signing on, taking on, what one is into |
| Antonyms: | idleness, inactivity, unemployment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enterprise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adventure, undertaking |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, affair, attempt, baby*, bag*, bit*, business, campaign, cause, company, concern, crusade, deal, deed, do*, effort, endeavor, engagement, essay, establishment, firm, flier*, follow through*, game*, happening, hazard, house, move, operation, outfit, performance, plan, plunge*, program, project, proposition, purpose, pursuit, risk, scheme, speculation, stake, striving, stunt, task, thing*, trade, try, venture, work, ballgame, big idea, biggie, pet project |
| Antonyms: | idleness, inactivity, unemployment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | give-and-take |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mutual concession |
| Synonyms: | adaptability, banter, collaboration, compromise, concession, cooperation, exchange, offset, reciprocity, settlement, swap, trade, deal-making, trade-off, wheeling and dealing |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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