commerce

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.5 External links 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 2.3.1 Derived terms

[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle French commerce < Latin commercium (“‘commerce, trade’”) < com- (“‘together’”) + merx (“‘good, wares, merchandise’”); see merchant, mercenary

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA:
  • US: /ˈkɑ.mɝs/
  • UK: /ˈkɒ.mɜs/ (Formerly accented on the second syllable.)
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[edit] Noun

commerce (uncountable)

1. (business) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
2. Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
   • Macaulay:

     Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.

3. Sexual intercourse.
4. A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

[edit] Synonyms

• trade; traffic; dealings; intercourse; interchange; communion; communication.
• See also Wikisaurus:sexual intercourse

[edit] Derived terms

• chamber of commerce
• commercial

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to commerce (third-person singular simple present commerces, present participle commercing, simple past and past participle commerced)

1. (dated) To carry on trade; to traffic.

   Beware you commerce not with bankrupts. -B. Jonson.

2. (dated) To hold intercourse; to commune.

   Commercing with himself. -Tennyson.

   Musicians ... taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven. -Prof. Wilson.

[edit] External links

• commerce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• commerce in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From Latin commercium; com- + merx, mercis, merchandise.

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[edit] Noun

commerce m. (plural commerces)

1. commerce

[edit] Derived terms

• commercial