commerce

Meaning

Noun

1. 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.
2. Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
3. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
4. An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

Verb

1. To carry on trade; to traffic.
2. To hold conversation; to communicate.

Concepts

commerce

trade

business

traffic

buying and selling

trading

transaction

dealings

deal

buy and sell

do business

sale

commercialism

market

barter

exchange

transact

vend

industry

intercourse

mercantilism

occupation

dealing

traffic in

contact

marketing

bargain

doing business

interaction

business deal

selling

commercial law

commercial affair

sales

association

economics

agricultural trade

copulation

sexual intercourse

commune

business economics

merchandise

commercialization

finance and trade

commercial transaction

communion

buy

shop

store

social intercourse

cross-fertilisation

cross-fertilization

interplay

commercial

confer

discuss

merchant

commercial enterprise

biz

business enterprise

internal trade

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɒm.əs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French commerce, from Latin commercium.

Sentences

Roman commerce allowed its empire to flourish and endure .