Carpentry and bricklaying, e.g. (6)

I believe the answer is:

trades

(Other definitions for trades that I've seen before include "Exchanges, buys or sells" , "Swaps - winds" , "Buys and sells shares" , "Occupations" , "blows" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal.

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