The phrase "old trade" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It typically refers to a trade that has been in place for a long time, and/or is outdated or obsolete. For example, "The old trade of blacksmithing has been replaced with modern fabrication techniques."
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The old trade of feeding and watering people was industrialised.In hindsight two innovations have proved essential.
Journalism, as a veteran scribe once put it, is a rough old trade.
Some of the Smokey Mountain scavengers even moved to Payatas to carry on their old trade.
"So we had to revive the old trade and show another way to sell our products".
Fuller had been a reporter and retained a jaundiced affection for his old trade.
June 1991: "Politics, as I have remarked from time to time, is a rough old trade".
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"That's the old trade-war issue".
Not only is he pro-settlement, but he is also an old trade-union friend of Mehmet Ali Talat, the Turkish-Cypriot leader.
It's the old trade-off: A big phone is better when you're using it, but a small one is better when you're carrying it.
In contrast, Mr Talat and Mr Christofias were not just pro-settlement but also old trade-union friends and fluent in English.
Suppliers may have the upper hand for now but old trade-fair hands will tell you that arguments about price are never over.
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