trading

1. 1.

   buying or selling securities or commodities

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Other forms of trading

plural

tradings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about trading

What does trading mean?

trading means "buying or selling securities or commodities".

How many syllables are in trading?

trading has 2 syllables: tra-ding. The stress falls on "tra". In IPA it is /ˈtɹeɪdɪŋ/.

Is trading a common word?

trading is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.