Push
Push verb - Sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs).
Usage example: The guy hanging around the school is pushing drugs
Trade
Trade verb - To carry on the business of buying and selling goods or other property.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good push | good trade |
| heavy | heavy push | heavy trade |
| entire | entire push | entire trade |
| massive | massive push | massive trade |
| Other adjectives: huge, potential, main, major, final, significant, subsequent, international. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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While operation is terribly easy — push a spaceship in one gate, and it'll pop out the other gate in the pair a few seconds later, no matter how far away — no one in the central interstellar trade system understands anything but the lies-to-children version of how they work.
Source: Black Box - In Andre Norton's Plague Ship, representatives of one of the big trading corporations tried to push the Free Traders into giving up a lucrative trade arrangement.
Source: Caught on Tape -
Commentary released in the trade paperback reveals that some of these scenes were specifically designed to push the envelope as far as possible in a comic book and others drew from painful personal experiences of the writers.
Source: Comic Book / 52
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