Difference between Trade and Craft

What is the difference between Trade and Craft?

Trade as a verb is to engage in trade while Craft as a verb is to make by hand and with much skill.

Trade

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: relating to or used in or intended for trade or commerce;

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To engage in trade To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions. To give (something) in exchange for. To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services. the collective people who perform a particular kind of skilled work. the skilled practice of a practical occupation a particular instance of buying or selling the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers

Example sentence: I think technical education and vocational skills and having a trade mean something.

Craft

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make by hand and with much skill.To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman): "state crafting", "crafting global policing".

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The skilled practice of a practical occupation.Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc.Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as lighters, hoys, and barges.Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats, generally commanded by lieutenants.A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space.A particular kind of skilled work.Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception.

Example sentence: We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

We hope you now know whether to use Trade or Craft in your sentence.

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