untradingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

untrading (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Not engaging in commerce.
   • 1691, John Locke, Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Money

     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' […]