commerce
Meaning
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- 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.
Synonyms
buying and selling
buy and sell
business deal
traffic in
business enterprise
commercial law
commercial transaction
agricultural trade
commercial enterprise
internal trade
social intercourse
commercial affair
finance and trade
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkɒm.əs/
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French commerce, from Latin commercium.
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