trade-in

1. 1.

   an item of property that is given in part payment for a new one

   Broaderproperty

Questions about trade-in

What does trade-in mean?

trade-in means "an item of property that is given in part payment for a new one".

How many syllables are in trade-in?

trade-in has 2 syllables and divides as tra-de-in under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is trade-in a common word?

trade-in 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.