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trade books

trade books is the plural of trade book.

Meaning of trade book

Noun

trade book (plural trade books)

  1. A book that is marketed to a general audience (as opposed to books that have specialized audiences, such as academic books). Not necessarily a trade paperback.
    • Most fiction titles are trade books.

Questions about trade books

What is trade books the plural of?
Trade books is the plural of trade book.

Words near trade books in the dictionary

  1. trade bloc
  2. trade blocs
  3. trade blotter
  4. trade blotters
  5. trade book
  6. trade books
  7. trade card
  8. trade cards
  9. trade counter
  10. trade counters
  11. trade cycle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trade books (page history and authors); trade book (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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