The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
The theory that a nation must always have a positive balance of trade, in the manner that a merchant would operate a shop. Typically this model presupposes protectionism.
The theory that holds that the prosperity of a nation depends upon its supply of capital, and that the global volume of trade is unchangeable.