TRADING Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

trading

verb

present participle of trade

as in dealing

to carry on the business of buying and selling goods or other property the U.S. agreed to trade with China

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as in exchanging

to give up (something) and take something else in return I'll trade my chocolate chip cookie for your bag of chips

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Recent Examples of trading Cavalry officers from around the world, including the United States and United Kingdom, argued strongly against trading their lovely mounts for new tanks. — Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 18 July 2026 The secondary transfer window opened July 13, and the front office has already made one move, trading McGuire to Houston for a GAM bounty. — Kyle Foley, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2026 Home makeover shows dominated TV, house-flipping became a booming business, and first-time buyers embraced the idea of trading sweat equity for a lower purchase price. — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 17 July 2026 If Freeling were to win the left tackle job for Week 1, the Panthers could consider trading Walker to a tackle-needy team with Christensen available for depth behind the rookie. — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 17 July 2026 For him, trading with the kids reminded him of growing up in Queens and doing the same thing. — Maria Jose Gutierrez-Chavez, Curbed, 17 July 2026 After trading a fifth-round pick to the San Francisco 49ers for the TCU product, the Cowboys will lean on Winters to bring youth and reliability to the off-ball linebacker spot with his 27 career starts and his 101 total tackles from last season. — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 July 2026 For example, SpaceX’s debt has sold off, sending yields higher, and is now trading at levels comparable to junk bonds. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 July 2026 While the possibility exists that the New York Mets end up trading Francisco Lindor, multiple executives across the industry described the chances on Friday as unlikely. — Will Sammon, New York Times, 17 July 2026

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Verb

Before dealing McCullers, the Astros stood approximately $10 million under the first luxury tax threshold, according to Cot’s Contracts.

— Chandler Rome, New York Times, 15 July 2026
The righty struck out catcher Luis Torrens, and kept dealing until the end of the eighth, allowing just one earned run – Lindor’s sixth-inning homer – on three hits, walking one and striking out seven in 4 1/3 innings (55 pitches, 38 for strikes).

— Gabrielle Starr, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2026

Definition of dealing

Verb

The United States and Iran have been exchanging strikes aimed at infrastructure and military targets.

— Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 18 July 2026
Tzolis starts the move in his own half and crowns it after exchanging multiple passes and easing his way past a tackle in a matter of seconds.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 16 July 2026

Definition of exchanging

Verb

The Ashaninka have become an enduring block to trafficking networks in Peru and Brazil.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
His father was a local leader during Plan Colombia, an initiative supported by the United States in 2000 that aimed to fight drug trafficking through intense militarization.

— Angie Acosta M, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026

Definition of trafficking

Verb

In a May preprint paper, researchers identified 420 apps touted as generic face-swapping tools and tested 155 to see if they could be used to sexualize images.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2026
Apple held the top spot for market capitalization for much of the previous decade, surpassing Exxon in 2011, before swapping ranks periodically with Microsoft.

— Ty Roush, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of swapping

Verb

That convergence is drawing together businesses that once occupied separate corners of the market, from consumer staples companies selling food to biotech firms developing medicines and veterinary providers offering increasingly sophisticated care.

— Elsa Ohlen,Carolin Roth, CNBC, 18 July 2026
Newcastle talk about a ‘trading model’ because selling players is essential to making signings, given UEFA and the Premier League’s financial restrictions.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 18 July 2026

Definition of selling

Verb

Jeon died in 1962, at which point his son and other relatives took over the collection, eventually changing its name to the Kansong Art Museum in 1966.

— Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 23 July 2026
View gallery - 4 images The way people use smart devices is changing as AI becomes a bigger part of everyday life.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 July 2026

Definition of changing

Verb

Although Chism is on administrative leave, the deals she’s participated in negotiating on behalf of Wyandotte County will remain ongoing in her absence, the Unified Government told The Star after her arrest.

— Sofi Zeman July 15, Kansas City Star, 15 July 2026
Buyers in markets with dense new construction have taken note, walking into builder offices and negotiating across competing communities.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 15 July 2026

Definition of negotiating

Verb

For centuries, technology has lowered costs by substituting mechanical power for human labor.

— Robert Pearl, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
In the early days of the republic, there were many radicals and reformers who shared my suspicion that patriotism was an evasion, substituting songs and speeches about liberty for the reality.

— Dominic Erdozain, Time, 3 July 2026