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Trading company

A trading company, also called a trading house, is a firm that intermediates trade between producers and consumers across borders, buying and selling commodities it does not produce.

Trading Places

Trading Places (1983) is a John Landis comedy starring Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, and Jamie Lee Curtis, in which the Duke brothers' $1 bet swaps a broker and a hustler, ending on the NYMEX orange juice floor.

Trading Spaces

Trading Spaces: American TLC reality home-makeover series (2000-2008, eight seasons), adapted from BBC's Changing Rooms; neighbors swap homes for 48 hours, redo a room on a $1,000 budget, host Paige Davis, 2018-2019 revival.

Trading zone

A trading zone, introduced by historian of science Peter Galison in 1996, is an arena where communities with different languages and values coordinate locally without global agreement on meaning.

TradingView

TradingView is a web-based charting platform and social network for traders and investors, founded in 2011, offering charts, screeners, trading ideas, and its Pine Script language.

Tradipitant

Tradipitant (NEREUS, LY686017, VLY-686) is a selective NK-1 receptor antagonist approved by the FDA in December 2025 to prevent motion-induced vomiting in adults; dosed 85 or 170 mg, half-life 34 hours.

Tradition

Tradition: transmitted practices with symbolic or ritual significance, defined by Hobsbawm; covers invented tradition (1983), UNESCO intangible heritage, Chinese custom-ritual interaction, and innovation.

Tradition and the Individual Talent

Tradition and the Individual Talent, T. S. Eliot's 1919 essay in The Egoist, reprinted in The Sacred Wood (1920), redefines literary tradition as labor-won and argues poetry is impersonal, an escape from personality.

Traditional African beers

Traditional African beers are opaque, sour, low-alcohol beverages made by fermenting sorghum, maize, or millet, known as umqombothi in South Africa and dolo in Burkina Faso.

Traditional African masks

Traditional African masks, also called African tribal masks, are masquerades of costume, music, and dance embodying spirits or ancestors, used in rites of passage across Africa.

Traditional African religions

Traditional African religions, also known as African Traditional Religion or African indigenous religions, are the indigenous religions of Africa, involving a supreme creator, divinities, venerated ancestors, and divination, transmitted orally rather than through scriptures.

Traditional animation

Traditional (cel) animation: hand-drawn animation on transparent celluloid cels photographed frame by frame over painted backgrounds; 24 drawings per second, Snow White (1937) as first feature, Disney's 1990 shift to digital CAPS.

Traditional Chinese characters

Traditional Chinese characters (繁體字, 正體字) are the fuller Han character forms standard in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and overseas communities, contrasting with mainland China's 1956 simplified scheme of 515 characters, with separate regional glyph standards.

Traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (中医), also called East Asian medicine, is a Chinese healthcare system combining acupuncture, tai chi, and herbal products, with origins about 3,000 years ago.

Traditional Chinese veterinary medicine

Traditional Chinese veterinary medicine (TCVM) is a codified system of animal diagnosis and treatment adapted from traditional Chinese medicine, built on yin-yang and five-element theory and syndrome differentiation.

Traditional dress of Portugal

The traditional dress of Portugal is festive rural folk costume, best known through the traje à vianesa of Viana do Castelo, a gold-adorned women's dress that became a national emblem.

Traditional dress of Siberian and circumpolar Asian peoples

Traditional dress of Siberian and circumpolar Asian peoples is fur- and skin-based clothing of peoples such as the Nenets, Evenki, Chukchi, and Sakha, among the first makers of tailored garments.

Traditional dress of Spain

Traditional dress of Spain is regional folk dress in three zones, north, central, and Andalusian-Mediterranean, codified nationally at a 1925 Madrid exhibition and still worn at festivals.

Traditional dress of the Americas, Arctic and Africa: comparative overview

Traditional dress of the Americas, Arctic, and Africa consists of locally made clothing systems in which materials, cut, and decoration respond to climate, trade, and social meaning.

Traditional dress of the Netherlands

Traditional dress of the Netherlands (klederdracht, streekdracht): region-bound folk clothing, never one national costume, with per-town variants signaling religion, wealth and mourning; only Arnemuiden, Marken, Staphorst-Rouveen and Bunschoten-Spakenburg still wear it daily, while Volendam dress dominates the tourist image.

Traditional economy

A traditional economy is an economic system in which custom, kinship, and inheritance, not market prices or planners, decide what, how, and for whom to produce.

Traditional education

Traditional education: the mainstream, teacher-centered schooling model in which instruction is delivered and managed by the teacher, contrasted with student-centered, active learning approaches and their measured outcomes.

Traditional food

Traditional food, also known as traditional dishes, is food from a particular culture, drawn from local resources and culturally accepted; UNESCO recognizes foodways as intangible cultural heritage.

Traditional games in the Philippines

Laro ng Lahi, traditional Filipino games such as patintero, tumbang preso, sipa, and sungka, played for generations with native materials; documented by Lopez (1980), promoted by DepEd and NCCA, and now preserved amid digital-game competition.

Traditional grammar

Traditional grammar: the Latin-derived school framework of eight parts of speech and sentence relations such as subject and object, historically prescriptive, foundational to modern linguistics, and still central to grammar-translation language teaching.

Traditional Italian regional dress

Traditional Italian regional dress is the local folk costume worn in Italy's regions, with no single national dress because each region has its own traditions, culture, and climate.

Traditional Japanese musical instruments

Wagakki (traditional Japanese musical instruments): koto, shamisen, shakuhachi, biwa, sho, hichiriki, taiko. Classified as wind, string, percussion; gagaku ensemble dates to the 10th century; shamisen arrived via Ryukyu in the 16th century; silk strings and skins are protected craft techniques.

Traditional knowledge

Traditional knowledge, also known as indigenous or folk knowledge, is the understanding, skills, and practices a community develops and passes down generations, often shaping its cultural identity.

Traditional medicine

Traditional medicine: codified or non-codified healthcare systems pre-dating biomedicine, also called TCIM. Used by billions, under 1% of health research funding; WHO Global Strategy 2025–2034 adopted at WHA78.

Traditional Native American clothing

Traditional Native American clothing, including regalia, is Indigenous North American dress of hides, quillwork, beadwork, and trade cloth; each tribe has distinct styles, and headdresses and ceremonial items are restricted.