The phrase trade-last, for one—meaning a kind of quid pro quo—I'll say something nice about you if you say something nice about me first—is found scattered throughout the country, especially among older speakers. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ALASKAN TRADE.] Reference
Um. Once at school one of the girls said she had a 'trade-last' for me, and after I had searched the closets of memory and dragged out that some one had said she had pretty eyes, dressed it up until this some one had called her ravishingly beautiful -- after all that conscientious dishonesty what does she tell me but that some one had said. From Wordnik.com. [The Visioning] Reference
//symbol-last trade-last trade time - Open-High-Low-Change (real time). From Wordnik.com. [eggheadcafe.com articles] Reference
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