Commerce
['kɒmɜːs] or ['kɑmɝs]
Definition
(noun.) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services).
(noun.) social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc..
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
(n.) Sexual intercourse.
(n.) A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
(v. i.) To carry on trade; to traffic.
(v. i.) To hold intercourse; to commune.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Dealing, trade, traffic, business.[2]. Intercourse, communication.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Trade, traffic, merchandize, barter, exchange, business, communication,dealing, intercourse
ANT:Stagnation, exclusion, inactivity, interdict, embargo, dullness
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Definition
n. interchange of merchandise on a large scale between nations or individuals: extended trade or traffic: intercourse: fellowship.—v.i. Commerce′ to trade: to have communication with.—adj. Commer′cial pertaining to commerce: mercantile.—n. commercial traveller.—ns. Commer′cialism; Commer′cialist; Commer′ciality.—adv. Commer′cially.—Commercial room a room in a hotel set apart for commercial travellers; Commercial traveller a person who transacts business as the accredited travelling representative of a trading house to other trading houses.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are engaged in commerce, denotes you will handle your opportunities wisely and advantageously. To dream of failures and gloomy outlooks in commercial circles, denotes trouble and ominous threatening of failure in real business life.
Editor: Myra
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
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Examples
- One of these compounds, namely, chloride of lime, is the almost universal bleaching agent of commerce. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Of the public Works and Institution which are necessary for facilitating particular Branches of Commerce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Light cruisers are vessels of from 1,500 to 7,500 tons, used in scouting, as commerce destroyers, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is composed of pure copper, 100 parts; pure tin, 17 parts; magnesia, 6 parts; tartar of commerce, 9 parts; sal-ammoniac, 3. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The foreign commerce of Portugal is of older standing than that of any great country in Europe, except Italy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The nobles, who despised commerce, and the burghers, who lived by it, were always fighting for the upper hand, and the laboring people sided now with one party, and now with the other. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It is upon this principle that the treaty of commerce between England and Portugal, concluded in 1703 by Mr Methuen, has been so much commended. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Gold and silver, therefore, very seldom appear in the commerce between Great Britain and the tobacco colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He was permitted to set up his apparatus in the room of the House Committee on Commerce at the Capitol. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- France seems to have had a considerable share of foreign commerce, near a century before England was distinguished as a commercial country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Their whole commerce was carried on by barter, and there was accordingly scarce any division of labour among them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I shall endeavour to explain both as fully and distinctly as I can, and shall begin with the system of commerce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The people of America are chiefly farmers and planters; scarce anything that they raise or produce is an article of commerce with the Indians. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The great commerce of every civilized society is that carried on between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- 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. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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