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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-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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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 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 Unionist Voice
Founded by Jim Allister, the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) is a hardline unionist party in Northern Ireland that opposes the Good Friday Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Traditionalist Catholicism
Traditionalist Catholicism is a movement within the Catholic Church opposing, in varying degrees, the Second Vatican Council and seeking restoration of the traditional Latin Mass.
Traditionalist conservatism
Traditionalist conservatism, also called Burkean conservatism, grounds political legitimacy in inherited religious, cultural, and institutional traditions rather than abstract principles; associated with Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, natural law, and post-2016 national conservatism.
Traditionalist Worker Party
The Traditionalist Worker Party was a neo-Nazi, white nationalist political organization in the United States, founded in 2015 by Matthew Heimbach and Matthew Parrott and dissolved in 2018.
Tradwife
Tradwife (traditional wife): women promoting traditional homemaker roles and submission to husbands via TikTok, Instagram, YouTube; anti-feminist ideology, 2020 popularization, monetized influencer content, criticized as far-right adjacent.
Trae Stephens
Trae Stephens is an American venture capital investor and entrepreneur, a partner at Founders Fund who co-founded defense technology company Anduril Industries in 2017 and ran the 2016 Pentagon transition.
Trafalgar-class submarine
Trafalgar-class submarine: seven Royal Navy nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) built at Barrow 1979-1991, successors to the Swiftsure class and predecessors of the Astute class; PWR1 reactor, five torpedo tubes, Spearfish and Tomahawk; last boat HMS Triumph retired December 2024.