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

Of the 620,000 options traded on Apple by midday, 385,000 were puts, with at least 113,000 puts likely initiated by buyers, compared to just 64,000 calls bought, Cboe LiveVol data show. — Oliver Renick, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2026

In June, Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire when SpaceX began trading on the Nasdaq. — Mariana Mazzucato, Time, 29 Oct. 2026

But the deal also poses a challenge to Johannesburg, which has long traded on its status as Africa’s most liquid capital market — larger than the rest of the continent’s bourses combined — because the IPO largely bypassed it. — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol YUM. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for trade on

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