Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
MERCHANDISE
merchandise, ware, product
(noun) commodities offered for sale; “good business depends on having good merchandise”; “that store offers a variety of products”
trade, merchandise
(verb) engage in the trade of; “he is merchandising telephone sets”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
merchandise (usually uncountable, plural merchandises)
(uncountable) Commodities offered for sale.
(countable) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
(uncountable) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
Usage notes
• Adjectives often applied to "merchandise": returned, used, damaged, stolen, assorted, lost, promotional, industrial, cheap, expensive, imported, good, inferior.
Synonyms
• wares
• product
Verb
merchandise (third-person singular simple present merchandises, present participle merchandising, simple past and past participle merchandised)
(intransitive, archaic) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
(intransitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
(transitive, archaic) To engage in the trade of.
(transitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
(transitive) To promote as if for sale.
Source: Wiktionary
Mer"chan*dise, n. Etym: [F. marchandise, OF. marcheandise.]
1. The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities. Spenser.
2. The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
Mer"chan*dise, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Merchandised; p. pr. & vb. n. Merchandising.]
Definition: To trade; to carry on commerce. Bacon.
Mer"chan*dise, v. t.
Definition: To make merchandise of; to buy and sell. "Love is merchandised." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
11 January 2025
COWBERRY
(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
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