Contact and Trade

Contact

Contact noun - An acquaintance who has influence especially in the business or political world.

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Trade and contact are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trade" instead the word "Contact" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: contacted, contactor, contacting

Trade noun - A giving or taking of one thing of value in return for another.

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Contact and trade are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contact" instead the word "Trade" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: traded, trading, trader, tradesman

human	human contact	human trade
old	old contact	old trade
good	good contact	good trade
similar	similar contact	similar trade
Other adjectives: main, peaceful, illegal, secret, new, frequent, significant, local, European.

A subversion in another John Ringo work, Live Free or Die: The initial contact is peaceful, by a race that's only interested in trade with Earth.

Source: We Come in Peace Shoot to Kill
Furthermore, from the 1630s to 1868, Japan heavily restricted contact and trade with the outside world and other cultures, producing a cultural ecosystem that existed in isolation from many outside trends and which evolved in its own directions.

Source: Cloudcuckooland
Contact with the Horvath is... not, and for rather less pleasant purposes than trade.

Source: We Come in Peace Shoot to Kill

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