| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Activity pursued as a livelihood: art, business, calling, career, craft, employment, job, line, métier, occupation, profession, pursuit, vocation, work. Slang : racket. Archaic : employ. See ACTION. 2. Commercial, industrial, or professional activity in general: business, commerce, industry, trading, traffic. See ACTION. 3. The act of exchanging or substituting: change, commutation, exchange, interchange, shift, substitution, switch, transposition. Informal : swap. See CHANGE, SUBSTITUTE. 4. The commercial transactions of customers with a supplier: business, custom, patronage, traffic. See TRANSACTIONS. | | VERB: | 1. To give up in return for something else: change, commute, exchange, interchange, shift, substitute, switch. Informal : swap. See CHANGE, SUBSTITUTE. 2. To offer for sale. Also used with in: deal (in), handle, market, merchandise, merchant, peddle, retail, sell, vend. See TRANSACTIONS.
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