[Ads-l] Trading?

[victor steinbok]

I'm aware of what it means and have used the expression. I don't believe
that's what was meant here. I could be wrong

VS-)

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 10:30 AM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> "Trade on" is defined by OED3 as "to make use of for one's own ends; to
> profit by; to take advantage of." Citations go back to Dickens (1843),
> _Martin Chuzzlewit_: "He never speculated and traded on her pride in you."
>

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