trade or commercial dispute?
English translation: Two different things...
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| English language (monolingual) [PRO] Bus/Financial - Law (general) / E-commerce, EDI, logistics | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: David Moore (X) Local time: 00:14 | ||||||
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| 4 +4 | Two different things... |
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| 4 | much the same but maybe a difference of scale |
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| 3 | there is a significant difference - not interchangeable |
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34 mins confidence: 
there is a significant difference - not interchangeable Explanation: Trade The act of the business of buying or selling for money; traffic; barter. Purchase and sale of goods and services between businesses, states or nations. In its most extensive signification this word includes all sorts of dealings by way of Bale or exchange. Commerce The exchange of goods, productions, or property of any kind; the buying selling, and exchanging of articles. The transportation of persons and property by land, water, and air. The exchange of commodities for commodities; considered in a legal point of view, it consists in the various agreements which have for their object to facilitate the exchange of the products of the earth or industry of man, with an intent to realize a profit. In a narrower sense, commerce signifies any reciprocal agreements between two persons, by which one delivers to the other a thing, which the latter accepts, and for which he pays a consideration; if the consideration be money, it is called a sale; if any other thing than money, it is called exchange or barter. Congress have power by the constitution to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes. The sense in which the word commerce is used in the constitution seems not only to include traffic, but intercourse and navigation. Reference: http://www.nesara.org/articles/barter_trade_commerce1.htm |
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1 hr confidence:
much the same but maybe a difference of scale Explanation: Having checked trade and commerce in a couple of lesser-known online dictionaries and not finding any distinctive difference between the terms, I turned to the OED online: Trade: The action of buying and selling goods and services Commerce: The activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale Apart from the mention of scale for Commerce, and the inclusion of services in Trade, I can't see any difference here! The UN used "trade" for the World Trade Organization, and Florida has the World Commerce Center. By personal choice, I would use "trade dispute" for an international conflict and "commercial dispute" for a domestic one, and I'm not certain just why, but it sounds right to me. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2014-03-31 11:13:18 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Maybe the reason for my preference is what Charles suggests: that "trade dispute" in a domestic scenario could mean a labour dispute, whereas in an international scenario it would refer to a commercial dispute. |
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6 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +4
peer agreement (net): +4Two different things... Explanation: I'm pretty sure that's the naswer, in the discussion block. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2014-03-31 12:14:39 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Trade dispute: Oxford dictionary http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/trade-d... "A dispute among workers or between employers and workers that is connected with the terms or conditions of employment." This is clearly an established expression with a meaning not corresponding to the sum of the meanings of its two constituent words; thus "trade" here has not got the usual meaning as quoted by other posters, unless of course the writer has made a (bad) mistake. The meaning of "commercial dispute" by contrast is a dispute which relates to the business or distribution, selling, manufacturing, etc., of a commodity or service, and I can find no specific definition of it on the Internet. Maybe I just have too little time... |
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