• IPA: /tɹeɪdɪŋ/

1. present participle of trade#English|trade

trading

1. Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade.

   a trading company

2. (obsolete, rare) Frequented by traders.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 2”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     they on the trading flood

3. (obsolete) Venal; corrupt; jobbing.

   a trading politician

trading

1. The carrying on of trade.
   • Bible, Revelation

     But thy riches and thy tradings, thy merchandise, and they who trade thy traffic, shall fall into the heart of the seas […]