Trade School

–noun

1.	the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.

2.	a purchase or sale; business deal or transaction.

3.	an exchange of items, usually without payment of money.

4.	any occupation pursued as a business or livelihood.

5.	some line of skilled manual or mechanical work; craft: the trade of a carpenter; printer's trade.

6.	people engaged in a particular line of business: a lecture of interest only to the trade.

7.	market: an increase in the tourist trade.

8.	a field of business activity: a magazine for the furniture trade.

9.	the customers of a business establishment.

10.	Informal. trade paper.

11.	trades. trade wind (def. 1).

–verb (used with object)

12.	to buy and sell; barter; traffic in.

13.	to exchange: to trade seats.

–verb (used without object)

14.	to carry on trade.

15.	to traffic (usually fol. by in): a tyrant who trades in human lives.

16.	to make an exchange.

17.	to make one's purchases; shop; buy.

–adjective

18.	of or pertaining to trade or commerce.

19.	used by, serving, or intended for a particular trade: trade journal.

20.	Also, trades. of, composed of, or serving the members of a trade: a trade club.

—Verb phrases

21.	trade down, to exchange a more valuable or desirable item for a less valuable or desirable one.

22.	trade in, to give (a used article) as payment to be credited toward a purchase: We trade in our car every three years.

23.	trade off, to exchange something for or with another.

24.	trade on or upon, to turn to one's advantage, esp. selfishly or unfairly; exploit: to trade on the weaknesses of others.

25.	trade up, to exchange a less valuable or desirable item for a more valuable or desirable one.

–noun

1.	an institution where instruction is given, esp. to persons under college age: The children are at school.

2.	an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field.

3.	a college or university.

4.	a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school.

5.	a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school.

6.	the activity or process of learning under instruction, esp. at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school.

7.	one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school.

8.	a building housing a school.

9.	the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium.

10.	a building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose: the school of agriculture.

11.	a particular faculty or department of a university having the right to recommend candidates for degrees, and usually beginning its progr c5b am of instruction after the student has completed general education: medical school.

12.	any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything.

13.	the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy.

14.	Art. a. a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence: the modern school; the Florentine school. b. the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity: the French school.

15.	any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs.

16.	Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier), the squad (school of the squad), or the like.

17.	Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered together, esp. for gambling or drinking.

18.	schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university.

19.	Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university.

–adjective

20.	of or connected with a school or schools.

21.	Obsolete. of the schoolmen.

–verb (used with object)

22.	to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.

23.	Archaic. to reprimand.