untrading
English
Etymology
un- + trading
Adjective
untrading (not comparable)
- (archaic) Not engaging in commerce.
- John Locke
- Men leave estates to their children in land, as not so liable to casualties as money in untrading and unskilful hands.
- 2016, Norma Clarke, Brothers of the Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street
- This income enabled him to give up general bookselling in 1762 and buy Linden House, a mansion valued at a colossal £12,000, in the suburbs at Turnham Green, where he was a regular at the Presbyterian church, kept a carriage and lived in some style. He became, through literature, 'an independent, untrading gentleman' […]
- John Locke