trade-last

1. 1.

   a compliment that I heard about you that I offer to trade for a compliment you have heard about me

   Broadercompliment

Questions about trade-last

What does trade-last mean?

trade-last means "a compliment that I heard about you that I offer to trade for a compliment you have heard about me".

How many syllables are in trade-last?

trade-last has 3 syllables and divides as tra-de--last 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-last a common word?

trade-last 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.