trade on

verb

traded on; trading on; trades on

transitive verb

: to take often unscrupulous advantage of : exploit

… traded on their influence … in securing special favors.

—T. C. Pease

Examples of trade on in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Part of the problem is no one on the outside can tell who exactly is placing the winning bets, fueling suspicion some participants are trading on non-public information and triggering demands for Washington to crack down. —CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026

The personal data used is typically traded on dark web marketplaces after large data breaches. —Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026

Part of the problem is no one on the outside can tell who exactly is placing the winning bets, fueling suspicion some participants are trading on non-public information and triggering demands for Washington to crack down. —ABC News, 26 Apr. 2026

After trading down out of the first round through two trades on Thursday and securing a third round selection in one of the deals, the 49ers used the pick on Black. —Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 25 Apr. 2026

There are usually a number of trades on Day 3. —Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026

Gannon Ken Van Dyke is accused of making more than $400,000 after betting roughly $33,000 across 13 trades on Polymarket, a popular prediction market platform, federal authorities said in an indictment. —Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026

One by one, high-conviction trades on Wall Street are falling out of favor. —Lu Wang, Bloomberg, 24 Apr. 2026

On the same day the AP published the report, the White House warned staff against using private information to trade on prediction markets. —Hallie Golden, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for trade on

• aileron
• antiphon
• autobahn
• carillon
• castellan
• celadon
• cephalon
• chitosan
• cynodon
• denouement
• deuteron
• echelon