English-French translations for trade

• commerce
  Le commerce équitable est une histoire à succès. Fair Trade is a success story.
  Ce rapport concerne le secteur du Commerce équitable. The report concerns the Fair Trade sector.
  Nous ne pouvons pas avoir un commerce équitable au rabais. We cannot have Fair Trade on the cheap.
• négoce
  La banane est aujourd'hui encore une des grandes denrées de base de l'alimentation humaine et le contrôle de son négoce, à l'évidence, est d'une dimension géostratégique. The banana is now one of the great basic human foodstuffs and control of the trade clearly has a geostrategic dimension.
  Ces négoces constituent évidemment la honte de notre Europe qui, de moins en moins chrétienne, respecte de moins en moins la dignité humaine. Such trade shames our Europe, a Europe which, increasingly less Christian, is increasingly less respectful of human dignity.
  Les autres veulent, au nom du libéralisme et du grand marché mondial intégré, favoriser le négoce international, le commerce et la spéculation. Then there are those who want to favour international business, trade and speculation, in the name of liberalism and the great integrated world market,
• affaires
  Enfin, le texte traite des affaires non liées au commerce. Lastly, the text deals with non-trade concerns.
  Pour résoudre non seulement les affaires criminelles mais aussi les affaires civiles et commerciales. Not only for criminal affairs, but just as much for civil and trade affairs.
  Troisièmement, Cancun doit transmettre le message approprié en ce qui concerne les relations entre affaires commerciales et non commerciales. Thirdly, Cancun must convey the right message concerning relations between trade and non-trade affairs.
• branche
• commercer
• corps de métier
• échanger
  On serait facilement tenté d'échanger une de ces solidarités contre l'autre. There is a strong temptation to trade one of those solidarities against the other.
  La ville de Londres, que je représente, est aussi très intéressée par l'idée d'échanger des permis d'émission de carbone au titre du SCEQE. The City of London, which I represent, is also very keen to trade carbon permits under the ETS.
  Mais, je peux vous dire que celui qui détruit l'environnement n'aura plus rien à échanger à l'avenir. To them I say, anyone who destroys the environment will finish up with nothing left to trade in!
• magasin
  En Autriche, jusqu'à présent, les achats effectués dans les salons commerciaux étaient juridiquement assimilés aux achats en magasin. In Austria, a purchase at a trade fair has up to now been treated, from a legal point of view, in the same way as a purchase in a shop.
• marché
  Ouvrez les marchés parce que le commerce génère de l'emploi. Open up your markets ? trade means work.
  Le commerce légal d’espèces est un marché phénoménal. Legal trade in species is an enormous market.
  L'ouverture du commerce et de l'accès aux marchés pose des défis. Opening up trade and access creates challenges.
• métier
  Je ne suis pas ingénieur : mon premier métier, c'était laitier. I am not an engineer: I was a milkman in my first trade.
  Je suis donc contre ce rapport pour sauver ce métier d’hommes libres. I therefore oppose this report to save this free men’s trade.
• ouvriers
  L'Europe, c'est le social: nous abandonnons les ouvriers des bananeraies, payés 10 euros l'heure, au profit des esclaves des multinationales, payés 2 euros l'heure. Europe represents the market and free trade of which Sir Leon is a symbol, yet we are yielding to American protectionism, to Section 301 and to 100 % customs duties.
• presse spécialisée
• profession
  La situation est tout aussi désastreuse dans le commerce et dans les professions libérales. The situation is equally appalling in trade and in the liberal professions.
  Les chauffeurs de bus, les boulangers et de nombreuses autres professions organisent leur propre syndicat indépendant. Bus drivers, bakers and many other professions organise their own independent trade unions.
  En Europe, on attire, on exploite, on s’enrichit en étant esclavagiste de profession. In Europe, there are those who attract, exploit and get rich by engaging in this slave trade.
• techniciens
• trafic
  Le trafic en question continue, et il est abject. This is a continuing and despicable trade.
  Cela ressemble à un trafic d'êtres humains. This resembles a kind of trade in human beings.
  Le trafic de drogue traverse les frontières. The drug trade is not confined by national borders.

Definition of trade

• Buying and selling of goods and services on a market
• A particular instance of buying or selling
• An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another
• Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work
• Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries
• The skilled practice of a practical occupation
• An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one
• The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
• Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator
• A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries
• A brief sexual encounter
• Instruments of any occupation
• Refuse or rubbish from a mine
• Course; custom; practice; occupation
• To engage in trade
• To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions
• To give in exchange for
• To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return
• To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with

Examples

• I did no trades with them once the rumors started
• The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions
• It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade
• He learned his trade as an apprentice
• After failing his entrance exams, he decided to go into a trade
• Most veterans went into trade when the war ended
• Even before noon there was considerable trade
• They rode the trades going west
• Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades
• Josh picked up some trade last night
• This company trades (in) precious metal
• Apple is trading at $200
• ExxonMobil trades on the NYSE
• The stock is trading rich relative to its sector
• Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?

Related words

• trade mark
• trademark