horse trade

1. 1.

   the swapping of horses (accompanied by much bargaining)

   Synonymshorse trading

   Broaderbarter

Questions about horse trade

What does horse trade mean?

horse trade means "the swapping of horses (accompanied by much bargaining)".

What is another word for horse trade?

Close synonyms include horse trading. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is horse trade a common word?

horse trade is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.