• IPA: /tɹeɪdɪŋ/

1. Present participle and gerund of trade

trading

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

   a trading company

2. (obsolete, rare) Frequented by traders.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC ↗:

     they on the trading flood

3. (obsolete) Venal; corrupt; jobbing.

   a trading politician

trading

1. The carrying on of trade.