Retrade

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To sell an item or commodity again after it has already been sold once
2. Engaging in the act of reselling goods or property that was previously purchased
3. The process of offering something for sale a second or additional time following its initial sale

Etymology: "Retrade" is a plain formation: the prefix "re-", meaning "again" or "back", attached to "trade". The word therefore describes doing the trading a second time, so that an item already bought and sold passes through another exchange. Its meaning follows directly from its parts, with no change of sense along the way. The base word "trade" has its own older history, which "retrade" simply inherits. Here the prefix does the work: "re-" from Latin is productive in English and can be joined to many verbs to indicate repetition, as in "resell" or "reread." "Retrade" belongs to that same family of formations.