trade on

verb

traded on; trading on; trades on
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transitive verb

: to take often unscrupulous advantage of : exploit
… traded on their influence … in securing special favors.—T. C. Pease

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Anthropic’s filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission sets the stage for the company to go public and begin trading on the stock market as soon as November 16. — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026 The sportswear giant saw its listing getting dropped from the prestigious S&P 100 — a subset of 100 mega-cap, blue chip firms from the S&P 500 — although Nike continues to trade on the Big Board and remains a part of the broader S&P 500 Index. — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026 The White House warned staff against using private information to trade on prediction markets the same day the report came out. — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026 But a company’s objection only blocks trading on that platform under the SEC exemption. — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for trade on

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