untrading

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adjective

Not engaging in commerce.

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Meanings

adjectiveuntrading (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparableNot 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
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    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, untrading gentleman' […]

    2016, Norma Clarke, Brothers of the Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street

Origin

From un- + trading.

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APA

untrading. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untrading

MLA

“untrading.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untrading. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “untrading,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untrading.

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