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Trade route
A trade route, also called a trading route or caravan route, is a path, by sea or land, along which goods move between distant markets.
Trade secret
Trade secret: intellectual property right in confidential business information that is secret, commercially valuable because secret, and protected by reasonable measures; no registration, indefinite duration, no protection against reverse engineering or independent invention.
Trade study
A trade study is a structured systems engineering comparison of 4 to 7 alternative designs, ranked by weighted criteria such as cost, schedule, and technical performance, with results documented for traceability.
Trade union
A trade union, also called a labor union, is an organization of workers that bargains with employers over pay and working conditions, using representation and, where necessary, strikes.
Trade unions in India
Trade unions in India, also known as labor unions, are worker organizations registered under Indian labor law, with a unionisation rate of 6.3% of the workforce in 2020.
Trade Unions of the USSR
The Trade Unions of the USSR (Профсоюзы СССР) were the trade unions of the Soviet Union, directed by the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions from 1918 until its abolition in 1990.
Trade war
A trade war, also called a customs war, is an international economic conflict in which states raise trade barriers and retaliate against each other's tariffs.
Trade winds
Trade winds, also called the tropical easterlies, are the persistent east-to-west winds on both sides of the equator, blowing from the subtropical high-pressure belts toward the equatorial low.
Trade-off
A trade-off is a situation in which getting more of one desirable thing requires giving up some of another desirable thing, a consequence of scarcity in economics.
Trade-off theory of capital structure
The trade-off theory of capital structure holds that firms choose debt levels by balancing tax benefits against financial distress costs, settling at a target leverage ratio.
TradeBridge
TradeBridge, also known as Woodsford TradeBridge, is a London-based fintech lender founded in 2013 that provides embedded working-capital and revenue-based finance to SMEs, funding over £5bn by 2025.
Tradecraft
Tradecraft is the set of methods and techniques of intelligence work, spanning operational skills like agent handling and concealment and analytic tradecraft governed by ICD 203's nine standards, enforced by ODNI review and reshaped by telegraphy, industrialization, and AI.
Trademark
Trademark: any word, phrase, symbol, or design identifying the source of goods or services; the most widely used intellectual property right, protected through national registration and the Madrid System, with rights tied to specific goods.
Trademark attorney
Trademark attorney: a lawyer handling trademark clearance, USPTO registration, and enforcement. In the U.S., any bar-admitted attorney may practice before the USPTO; foreign-domiciled applicants must retain U.S.-licensed counsel.
Trademark Official Gazette
The Trademark Official Gazette (TMOG) is the USPTO's weekly Tuesday online journal listing trademarks published for opposition, Supplemental Register registrations, and updated certificates, starting a 30-day opposition window under 15 U.S.C. §1063.
Trademark symbol
Trademark symbol: the notices ™, ℠, and ® placed beside marks. ™/℠ signal unregistered claims to goods/services marks; ® is legally reserved for registered trademarks.
Tradeplus24
Tradeplus24, later rebranded TP24, was a Zurich fintech founded in 2016 that lent to small and medium-sized businesses through credit lines secured against their unpaid invoices.
Trader (finance)
A trader is a financial professional who buys and sells securities, derivatives, currencies, or commodities for an employer's capital, on behalf of clients, or with personal capital.
Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's, originally Pronto Markets, is an American grocery chain founded by Joe Coulombe in 1967, known for its roughly 4,000 mostly private-label products at everyday low prices.
Trader Vic's
Trader Vic's is a Polynesian-themed restaurant chain founded by Victor Bergeron, who renamed his Oakland bar Hinky Dinks in 1938. Known for claiming the 1944 Mai Tai and rivaling Don the Beachcomber.
TRADES (adversarial training)
TRADES, an adversarial training method introduced at ICML 2019, adds a beta-weighted KL divergence penalty to keep predictions on adversarial examples close to clean ones.
Tradescantia
Tradescantia (spiderworts), a New World genus of about 90 herbaceous species in Commelinaceae, order Commelinales; includes wandering Jew (T. zebrina), inch plant, and oyster plant (T. spathacea), with Rhoeo, Zebrina, and Setcreasea as synonyms.
Tradescantia ohiensis
Tradescantia ohiensis, Ohio spiderwort, smooth spiderwort, or bluejacket: a clump-forming Commelinaceae perennial native from Ontario to the central and eastern United States, with blue to rose three-petaled one-day flowers, 18 synonyms, and NatureServe rank G5.
Tradescantia pallida
Tradescantia pallida (purple heart, purple queen) is a Mexican trailing Commelinaceae perennial with deep purple leaves and pink morning-opening flowers, mildly irritant sap, easy stem-cutting propagation, and invasive status in parts of South Africa and Italy.
Tradescantia zebrina
Tradescantia zebrina, the zebra plant or inch plant (formerly Zebrina pendula), is a trailing Commelinaceae houseplant native from Mexico to Colombia, with silver-striped purple leaves, easy propagation, and invasive status in Florida, Brazil, and South Africa.
Tradeshift
Tradeshift is a San Francisco fintech company founded in 2010 by a Danish team that operates a cloud-based network for e-invoicing, compliance, and supply chain payments.
TradeTech (uranium price reporter)
TradeTech is a Denver-based uranium price reporting firm founded in 1995, which with UxC provides the de facto reference prices for a uranium market that has no exchange.
Tradewind Aviation
Tradewind Aviation, also known as Tradewind Shuttle, is an American Part 135 charter airline founded in 2001 and headquartered in Oxford, Connecticut, flying scheduled and private charter service.
Trading 212
Trading 212 is a fintech retail broker offering commission-free trading in stocks, ETFs, forex, and commodities through mobile apps, regulated in the UK and several other countries.
Trading card
Trading card: small collectible printed card, originating in 1880s tobacco advertising inserts (T206 Honus Wagner), evolving through gum-era baseball cards and 1952 Topps design into sports cards, Pokémon TCG, and a graded, multi-billion-dollar secondary market.