COMMERCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("commerce" is a kind of...):

dealing; dealings; transaction (the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities))

Meronyms (parts of "commerce"):

shipping; transport; transportation (the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials)

Attribute:

noncommercial (not connected with or engaged in commercial enterprises)

commercial (connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises)

Domain member category:

market (buy household supplies)

shop (do one's shopping)

buy in; stock; stock up (amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use)

market (deal in a market)

market (engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of)

barter away (trade in in a bartering transaction)

pick up (buy casually or spontaneously)

trust ((chiefly archaic) extend credit to)

broker (act as a broker)

turn over (do business worth a certain amount of money)

arbitrage (practice arbitrage, as in the stock market)

browse; shop (shop around; not necessarily buying)

comparison-shop (compare prices for a given item)

antique (shop for antiques)

smuggle (import or export without paying customs duties)

import (bring in from abroad)

export (sell or transfer abroad)

hock; pawn; soak (leave as a guarantee in return for money)

impulse-buy (buy on impulse without proper reflection)

franchise (grant a franchise to)

retail (be sold at the retail level)

trade (be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions)

usance (the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange))

commercialise; commercialize; market (make commercial)

buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)

take (buy, select)

get (purchase)

clear (sell)

turn (get by buying and selling)

negociate (sell or discount)

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

sell short (sell securities or commodities or foreign currency that is not actually owned by the seller, who hopes to cover (buy back) the sold items at a lower price and thus to earn a profit)

remainder (sell cheaply as remainders)

resell (sell (something) again after having bought it)

traffic (trade or deal a commodity)

merchandise; trade (engage in the trade of)

trade; trade in (turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase)

liquidize; sell out; sell up (sell or get rid of all one's merchandise)

wholesale (sell in large quantities)

retail (sell on the retail market)

deal (sell)

transact (conduct business)

deal; sell; trade (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)

auction; auction off; auctioneer (sell at an auction)

realise; realize (convert into cash; of goods and property)

fob off; foist off; palm off (sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive)

deaccession (sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commerce"):

trading (buying or selling securities or commodities)

trade (the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services)

e-commerce (commerce conducted electronically (as on the internet))

exchange; interchange (reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries))

initial offering; initial public offering; IPO (a corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public)

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

carriage trade (trade from upper-class customers)

importation; importing (the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country)

exportation; exporting (the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country)

marketing (the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service)

distribution (the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer)

marketing; merchandising; selling (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)

traffic (buying and selling; especially illicit trade)

defrayal; defrayment; payment (the act of paying money)

evasion; nonpayment (the deliberate act of failing to pay money)

Derivation:

commercial (connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises)

commercial (of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior)

commercial (of or relating to commercialism)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("commerce" is a kind of...):

conversation (the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913

Synonyms:

Commerce; Commerce Department; Department of Commerce; DoC

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Commerce" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Commerce"):

Bureau of the Census; Census Bureau (the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; NOAA (an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather)

Technology Administration (an agency in the Department of Commerce that works with United States industries to promote competitiveness and maximize the impact of technology on economic growth)

Patent and Trademark Office Database; Patent Office (the government bureau in the Department of Commerce that keeps a record of patents and trademarks and grants new ones)

Credits

Context examples:

Yes; these four evenings have enabled them to ascertain that they both like Vingt-un better than Commerce; but with respect to any other leading characteristic, I do not imagine that much has been unfolded.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The person in question will be your marriage partner, steady romantic partner, or someone you think of as a partner in commerce, such as a business partner, agent, publicist, social media manager, writing partner, or another businessperson with whom you have a serious one-on-one relationship.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

During this last voyage I had no commerce with the master or any of his men; but, pretending I was sick, kept close in my cabin.