1. business
It's business.
An increase in customer complaints could signal a decline in business.
Business is bad, and the outlook for next year is even worse.
If there is somebody to back me up, the business will be successful.
His company was singled out as the most successful small business in the region.
Business people exchange cards at the beginning or end of a meeting.
A successful business is built on careful financial management.
His old company gave him the shaft. But I admire the way he turned bad luck into good and did even better with his own business.
The president held himself responsible for the slump in business, and left his post.
Tom came up with various ideas on how to make his business more successful.
His customers dropped off after the new supermarket opened for business.
A business cycle is a recurring succession of periods of prosperity and periods of depression.
Now that Bush has been elected, it will be business as usual.
Shall we shoot the breeze for a while before talking business?
With the approach of Christmas, business improved somewhat.
2. trade
Terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001.
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The three organizations are the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all.
I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.
Never mind that. After all up till now he's stuffed himself on huge profit selling high brand-name goods of no real worth. From now on he can just try his best at honest trade.
Soon after graduating from trade school, Ray Murphy was taken on as a machinist at the local automobile plant.
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Goods are the great travelers over the earth's surface, far more than humans, which means that hardly an inhabited spot on the globe is untouched by trade.
Despite a large surplus in merchandise trade, the current account surplus is not so big due to a deficit in invisible trade.
Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty.
A glance at Chart 2 will reveal that some of these trade cycles are very short-lived.
Parents also arrange marriages, which is a polite way of saying that they sell or trade their children.
You shouldn't trade your short commute for a nicer house a longer distance from the office.
Most of my family work in the building trade: my dad’s a carpenter, my uncle’s a painter and my cousins are both construction workers.
Anglais mot "تجارت"(trade) se produit dans des ensembles:
02 Getting into the flow