{
  "id": "trade.economic",
  "term": "trade",
  "sense": "economic",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "trade",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "when people give products to others and receive products or money",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "transferred.exchange",
      "products.goods",
      "money.economic"
    ],
    "interaction": "the giving of products and the receiving of products or money together create a transfer",
    "novel_properties": [
      "mutual benefit",
      "value equivalence",
      "reciprocal obligation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Vietnam exported $77 billion in electronics to the United States in exchange for soybeans and machinery.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Silk Road linked Chang'an and Rome, moving silk, spices, and jade across 4,000 miles by 130 BCE.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Steam engines in 1830s Manchester factories ran on coal traded from South Wales pits for cotton textiles.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "commercial.economic"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "trade",
    "traded",
    "trades",
    "trading"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-trade.economic"
}