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
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.
• trade, traffic, dealings, intercourse, interchange, communion, communication
• See also copulation
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.
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
19 May 2025
(adjective) of or made from or using substances produced by or used in reactions involving atomic or molecular changes; “chemical fertilizer”
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. When coffee berries turn from green to bright red – indicating ripeness – they are picked, processed, and dried. Dried coffee seeds are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor.
