merchandizing

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English

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Etymology

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From merchandize +‎ -ing.

Noun

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merchandizing (usually uncountable, plural merchandizings)

  1. Alternative spelling of merchandising
    • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usurie. XLI.”, in The Essayes [], 3rd edition, London: [] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 240:
      The Diſcommodities of Vſury are: Firſt, that it makes fevver Merchants. For vvere it not, for this Lazie Trade of Vſury, Money vvould not lie ſtill, but vvould, in great Part, be Imployed vpon Merchandizing; VVhich is the Vena Porta of VVealth in a State.
    • 1769, William Blackstone, “Of Offences against God and Religion”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book IV (Of Public Wrongs), Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 63:
      Profanation of the lord's day, or ſabbath-breaking, is a ninth offence againſt God and religion, puniſhed by the municipal lavvs of England. [] And therefore the lavvs of king Athelſtan forbad all merchandizing on the lord's day, under very ſevere penalties.
    • 1868, Robert Browning, “I. The Ring and the Book.”, in The Ring and the Book. [], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 47, lines 898–903:
      [T]he old Triton, at his fountain-sport, / Bernini's creature plated to the paps, / Puffs up steel sleet which breaks to diamond dust, / A spray of sparkles snorted from his conch, / High over the caritellas, out o' the way / O' the motley merchandizing multitude.
    • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXVII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section V, page 318:
      Now, these strikers: Honest, they're not such bad people. Just foolish. They don't understand the complications of merchandizing and profit, the way we businessmen do, but sometimes I think they're about like the rest of us, and no more hogs for wages than we are for profits.
    • 2009 February 27, Steven Heller, “Noel Martin, inventive catalog designer, dies at 86”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 February 2022:
      With the ubiquitous branding and expert merchandizing of museums today, it is easy to forget that graphic design was once a low priority for them.

Verb

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merchandizing

  1. present participle and gerund of merchandize