trade-n; 4 Senses

Sense Number 1: international transactions of commerce

Commentary: TRADE[+event][+transaction][+commercial][+international]

Examples:
Great efforts have been made to improve foreign trade.
This city has always been an important center of trade.
Their country has a surplus in the balance of trade.

Mappings:
PropBank: trade.01
WordNet 1.7 Sense Numbers: 1, 5, 6

Sense Number 2: the informal exchange of goods between people

Commentary: TRADE[+event][+exchange][+personal][+of_goods]

Examples:
I'll make you a trade of my ham sandwich for your candy bar.
Boardwalk for the Electric Company is not a fair trade in the game of Monopoly.
The couple stayed in a Paris apartment for two weeks as a trade for their summer home in Maine during that time.

Mappings:
PropBank: trade.01
WordNet 1.7 Sense Numbers: 3

Sense Number 3: a line of work or business

Commentary: TRADE[+organization][+industry][+genre][+skilled] Reference to a particular kind of work or workers, usually skilled.

Examples:
There's good money in the coffee trade.
Nobody knows the tourist trade like the Thais.
In the trade this sort of computer is called a client-based system.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 1.7 Sense Numbers: 2, 4

Sense Number 4: trade wind

Commentary: TRADE[+force][+winds][+constant][+blowing][+towards_equator] Steady winds blowing form east to west above and below the equator.

Examples:
They rode the trade winds going west.
You can stay on a single tack for days, once you catch the trades.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 1.7 Sense Numbers: 7