What is a TRADE?

Question

Some people call other people their trade. What does that mean?

Answer 1

It's a term used to be a term used by gay men to signal their newest hook up(their trade). But has spilled over into the hetero world, and usually only used by a woman or gay man, when referring to their new man.

I don't men and gay women call their woman a trade. Because they were referred to as "Fish".

Answer 2

Economic
Trade is the voluntary exchange of goods, services, or both. Trade is also called commerce.

Trade (financial instrument), Short term position in a security to profit from fluctuations in its price.

Trade may also refer to
Trade (profession), a particular occupation or profession requiring a particular skill or craft (see also: trade fair or trade school)

Trade (sport), the exchange of a player or players from one team for others from one or more other teams; example: see Major League Baseball transactions

Trade winds, a pattern of wind found in bands around the Earth's equatorial region (from the obsolete use of the word to mean path or track)

Non-economic exchange, or to a sequence of equivalent actions, such as trading blows

Trade (Homosexual), the partnering between a gay male partner and a straight male partner

Trade nightclub, a gay nightclub in London
Trade, a 2007 film.

Answer 3

A specific skill one has, and in the "old days", a blacksmith would 'trade' his skill and service for another, such as a homebuilder. The blacksmith would make some horseshoes and iron wheel rings and 'trade' them for the service of a homebuilder to repair his roof.

Answer 4

I don't know what it means when someone calls another their "trade." It must be a slang I haven't heard yet.