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Commerce

Commerce Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Commerce? [n] transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) [n] social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc. [n] the federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913 Synonyms \| Synonyms for Commerce: Commerce Department \| commercialism \| Department of Commerce \| mercantilism Related Terms \| Find terms related to Commerce: act of love \| activities \| activity \| adultery \| affair \| affairs \| answer \| aphrodisia \| ass \| bag \| balling \| basis \| business \| carnal knowledge \| climax \| cohabitation \| coition \| coitus \| coitus interruptus \| collegiality \| communication \| communion \| community \| concern \| concernment \| congress \| connection \| contact \| conversation \| converse \| copula \| copulation \| correspondence \| coupling \| dealing \| dealings \| diddling \| employ \| employment \| enterprise \| ESP \| exchange \| fellowship \| fornication \| function \| industry \| information \| interaction \| interchange \| intercommunication \| intercommunion \| intercourse \| interest \| interplay \| intimacy \| labor \| linguistic intercourse \| lookout \| lovemaking \| making it with \| marital relations \| marketing \| marriage act \| mating \| matter \| meat \| mercantilism \| merchandising \| message \| occupation \| onanism \| orgasm \| ovum \| pareunia \| procreation \| relations \| reply \| response \| screwing \| service \| sex \| sex act \| sexual climax \| sexual commerce \| sexual congress \| sexual intercourse \| sexual relations \| sexual union \| sleeping with \| social activity \| social intercourse \| social relations \| speaking \| speech \| speech circuit \| speech situation \| sperm \| takeoff \| talking \| telepathy \| thing \| touch \| trade \| traffic \| trafficking \| truck \| two-way communication \| undertaking \| venery \| work See Also \| Bureau of the Census \| business \| business enterprise \| carriage trade \| Census Bureau \| commercial enterprise \| conversation \| dealing \| dealings \| defrayal \| defrayment \| distribution \| evasion \| exchange \| executive department \| exportation \| exporting \| importation \| importing \| initial offering \| initial public offering \| interchange \| IPO \| marketing \| merchandising \| National Weather Service \| nonpayment \| payment \| selling \| shipping \| trade \| trading \| traffic \| transaction \| transport \| transportation Commerce In Webster's Dictionary \Com"merce\, n. Note: (Formerly accented on the second syllable.) [F. commerce, L. commercium; com- + merx, mercis, merchandise. See {Merchant}.] 1. 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. The public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive commerce of private men. --Hume. 2. Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity. Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser. --Macaulay. 3. Sexual intercourse. --W. Montagu. 4. A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade. --Hoyle. {Chamber of commerce}. See {Chamber}. Syn: Trade; traffic; dealings; intercourse; interchange; communion; communication.

Commerce Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Commerce?

[n] transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
[n] social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.
[n] the federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913

Synonyms | Synonyms for Commerce: Commerce Department | commercialism | Department of Commerce | mercantilism

Commerce In Webster's Dictionary

\Com"merce\, n.

Note: (Formerly accented on the second syllable.) [F.
      commerce, L. commercium; com- + merx, mercis,
      merchandise. See {Merchant}.]
1. 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.

         The public becomes powerful in proportion to the
         opulence and extensive commerce of private men.
                                               --Hume.

2. Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in
   society with another; familiarity.

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

3. Sexual intercourse. --W. Montagu.

4. A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to
   exchange, barter, or trade. --Hoyle.

{Chamber of commerce}. See {Chamber}.

Syn: Trade; traffic; dealings; intercourse; interchange;
     communion; communication.

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