Merchandise
['mɜːtʃ(ə)ndaɪs;-z] or ['mɝtʃəndaɪs]
Definition
(noun.) commodities offered for sale; 'good business depends on having good merchandise'; 'that store offers a variety of products'.
Checked by Elton--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.
(n.) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
(v. i.) To trade; to carry on commerce.
(v. t.) To make merchandise of; to buy and sell.
Typist: Yvette
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Commodities, goods, wares.
Edited by Cary
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Goods, commodities, wares, stock
Typed by Katie
Examples
- The drivers of each and every one of the slow-moving market-carts we met were stretched in the sun upon their merchandise, sound a sleep. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- About the beginning of the nineteenth century a number of men in England were experimenting with new means of locomotion, both for merchandise and for passengers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The law regards him, in every respect, as devoid of rights as a bale of merchandise. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I was too much flattered to make an exposure and throw the merchandise on the angel's hands. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Their warehouses were the great distributing depots from whence the costly merchandise of the East was sent abroad over Europe. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He met this with a steady gaze of his small stock-taking eyes, which made her feel herself no more than some superfine human merchandise. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And if merchandise is to be carried over the sea, skilful sailors will also be needed, and in considerable numbers? Plato. The Republic.
- On this platform were placed tracks, and from the tracks were suspended trucks, baskets, or other merchandise receptacles, having wheels resting on and adapted to roll on the tracks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- One street is devoted to a particular kind of merchandise, another to another, and so on. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Instead of being a destroyer of merchandise, this new craft was an unarmed carrier of merchandise. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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