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untrading

untrading adjective: not engaging in commerce.

Adjective

untrading (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Not engaging in commerce.
    • Men leave estates to their children in land, as not so liable to casualties as money in untrading and unskilful hands.1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC
    • This income enabled him to give up general bookselling in 1762 and buy Linden House, a mansion valued at a colossal £12,000, in the suburbs at Turnham Green, where he was a regular at the Presbyterian church, kept a carriage and lived in some style. He became, through literature, 'an independent...2016, Norma Clarke, Brothers of the Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street

Origin of untrading

From un- + trading.

Questions about untrading

What does untrading mean?
Untrading means not engaging in commerce.
What part of speech is untrading?
Untrading is an adjective.

Words near untrading in the dictionary

  1. untradeable
  2. untraded
  3. untrademarkable
  4. untrademarked
  5. untradesmanlike
  6. untrading
  7. untraditional
  8. untraditionality
  9. untraditionally
  10. untraduced
  11. untrafficable

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