About The Word Commerce

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Commerce

Commerce Meaning & Definition
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.

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