trade paper

trade paper (plural trade papers)

1. A magazine or newspaper whose target audience is people who work in a particular trade or industry.

   Synonyms: trade journal, trade magazine

• Not to be confused with trade paperback.

• trade newspaper

• “trade paper”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “trade paper”, in Collins English Dictionary.

• paper trade, tarpapered