untrading
English
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[edit]untrading (not comparable)
- (archaic) Not engaging in commerce.
- 1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC:
- Men leave estates to their children in land, as not so liable to casualties as money in untrading and unskilful hands.
- 2016, Norma Clarke, Brothers of the Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street:
- This income enabled him to give up general bookselling in 1762 and buy Linden House, a mansion valued at a colossal £12,000, in the suburbs at Turnham Green, where he was a regular at the Presbyterian church, kept a carriage and lived in some style. He became, through literature, 'an independent, untrading gentleman' […]