Oxford Business English Dictionary for Learners of English

(Stock Exchange) an area in a stock exchange where dealers meet each other and buy and sell shares: The news of the rise in interest rates was greeted with shock on the trading floor.

'trading loss (also .gross 'loss) noun [c](Accounting) the amount by which money received from the sale of goods or services is less than the cost of producing or providing them. This is calculated before overheads, interest and tax is taken off: Full-year results showed a substantial trading loss. trading profit

'trading .partner noun [c]

(Economics; Trade) a country or company that another country or company buys goods from or sells goods to: Australia is New Zealand's largest trading partner.

(IT) a company that is involved in exchanging electronic information with another company using EDI: a small Hong Kong company that conducts e-business with more than 10 trading partners in the UK, Europe and Australasia

'trading .period = accounting period

'trading post noun [c]

(Trade) a small place in an area that is a long way from any town, used as a centre for buying and selling goods (especially in N America in the past)

(E-commerce) a website where people can buy and sell things

'trading .profit (also .gross 'profit) noun [c](Accounting) the amount by which money received from the sale of goods or services is greater than the cost of producing or providing them. This is calculated before overheads, interest and tax are taken off: The company reported a small trading profit in its second year. trading loss

'trading .session = session (l)

.Trading'Standards noun [pl.; u] (Law) in the UK, the process of making sure that laws protecting consumers are obeyed; the government department responsible for this: Contact your local Trading Standards service for advice and information, о a Trading Standards officer

'trading stock = stock-in trade (1)

traffic /'traefik/ noun, verb • noun [U]

see also: foot traffic, page store ~ 573 train

О business/commuter/passenger traffic ♦ cargo/ container/freight traffic

(Marketing) the number of people who come to a place or use a service in a particular period: We used our website to drive traffic to our stores.

О customer/mall/shopper/walk-in traffic

(IT) information that travels across a computer system in a particular period

data/email/Internet/network/voice traffic

illegal trade in sth: traffic in drugs

verb(-ck-)

'traffic in sth to buy and sell sth illegally ► 'trafficker noun [C] 'trafficking noun [u]: the fight against human trafficking (= illegally bringing people into a country)

trail /treil/ verb, noun

verb

[+ obj or no obj] (used especially in the continuous tenses) to be less successful than other companies, people, etc: Their sales are trailing behind other superstores, о Our 24% market share is trailing our competitor's 41%. о The UK trails badly when it comes to research and development spending on IT.

[+ obj] to advertise a plan, product, film/movie, etc. in advance: the company's heavily/widely trailed plans о The revenues were slightly better than trailed.

[+ obj] to follow behind sb/sth: New business jet orders typically trail a recovery by nine to twelve months.

ШИ .trail 'off (especially BrE) to gradually become less: Income from advertising increased in the first half of the year, but then trailed off.

noun [C]

see also: audit trail, paper trail