COMMERCE

commerce, commercialism, mercantilism

(noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

commerce

(noun) social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

commerce (countable and uncountable, plural commerces)

(business) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.

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

(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.

An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

Synonyms

• trade, traffic, dealings, intercourse, interchange, communion, communication

• See also copulation

Verb

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

(intransitive, archaic) To carry on trade; to traffic.

(intransitive, archaic) To hold intercourse; to commune.

Proper noun

Commerce

A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Source: Wiktionary

Com"merce, n.

Note: (Formerly accented on the second syllable.) Etym: [F. commerce, L. commercium; com- + merx, mercis, merchadise. 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.

Com*merce" ( or , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Commerced; p. pr. & vb. n. Commercing.] Etym: [Cf. F. commercer, fr. LL. commerciare.]

1. To carry on trade; to traffic. [Obs.] Beware you commerce not with bankrupts. B. Jonson.

2. To hold intercourse; to commune. Milton. Commercing with himself. Tennyson. Musicians . . . taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven. Prof. Wilson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition