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tradesies

/ˈtɹeɪdziz/

tradesies noun: trades/trading.

Noun

tradesies pl (plural only)

  1. (childish, plural, plural-only) Trades/trading.
    • But such tricks are inconsequential alongside the boundless and varied delights of the lunch hour. These range from the simple fun of “doing tradesies” (you give me your brown paper bag lunch, I’ll give you mine, we’ll both be surprised), to the more grownup game of business lunch dates with men...1964 August 28, Jane Howard, “Secretary’s Guide to Sex at High Noon: Sex and the Office by Helen Gurley Brown (Bernard Geis Associates) $4.95”, in Life, page 8
    • Then quickly, not giving him a chance to answer, she leavened it, using the language of long-past childhood games. “You mean for keeps. No backsies. No tradesies. No do-overs.”2005, Lynne Kaufman, Taking Flight, MIRA, →ISBN, page 191

Examples of tradesies in a sentence

  • “Tradesies?” Macy smiled and held up her small bottle of strawberry milk, pointing it at EJ’s juice box.2013, Annie Tipton, Diary of a Real Payne: True Story, Barbour Publishing, →ISBN:
  • “I’ll trade you this for your ax?” “No tradesies,” he said.2018, Auralee Wallace, Haunted Hayride with Murder: An Otter Lake Mystery, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN:
  • No tradesies, no takesy-backsies, no transfers.2020, Josh Berk, Saundra Mitchell, Camp Murderface, Harper, →ISBN:
  • It’ss red.” “Tradesies?” “With pleassure.2021, Stephen B. Pearl, Freedom’s Law, Brain Lag Publishing, →ISBN:

Origin of tradesies

From trade + -sies.

Questions about tradesies

What does tradesies mean?
Tradesies means trades/trading.
How do you use tradesies in a sentence?
“Tradesies?” Macy smiled and held up her small bottle of strawberry milk, pointing it at EJ’s juice box.
What part of speech is tradesies?
Tradesies is a noun.
How do you pronounce tradesies?
Tradesies is pronounced /ˈtɹeɪdziz/.

Words near tradesies in the dictionary

  1. tradesfolks
  2. tradeshop
  3. tradeshops
  4. tradeshow
  5. tradeshows
  6. tradesies
  7. tradesman
  8. tradesman's entrance
  9. tradesman's entrances
  10. tradesmanlike
  11. tradesmanly

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