merchandise

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
2. (uncountable, usually) Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)
3. (archaic, countable, usually) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
4. (archaic, uncountable, usually) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

Verb

1. (archaic, intransitive) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
2. (intransitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
3. (archaic, transitive) To engage in the trade of.
4. (transitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
5. (transitive) To promote as if for sale.

Synonyms

goods

commodity

wares

product

trade

ware

article

commodities

stock

buy and sell

market

deal in

thing

article of commerce

deal

nacelle

negotiate

net weight

preparation

production

products

ready-made

remittance

self-interest

sell

shipment

stores

stuff

trade in

traffic

vend

works

yard goods

ditribute

peomote

merch

cargo

cloth

commerce

commercialize

formulation

freight

groceries

item

items

junk

lading

materials

matter

merchandize

Translations

marchandise

Ware

mercancía

waar

mercadoria

mercanzia

koopwaar

Handelsware

artigo

merce

article

εμπόρευμα

handelswaar

goederen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmɜːt͡ʃəndaɪs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: marchaundise

Cognate with French: marchandise

Inherited from Middle English: marchaundisen

In summary

From Middle English marchaundise (“commerce, trading; buying; business transaction, deal; merchandise, goods, wares; possessions”), from Anglo-Norman marchaundise and Old French marcheandise (modern French marchandise), from Old French marcheant (“seller, vendor”) (ultimately from Latin mercātus (“buying and selling, trade, traffic; market; marketplace”), possibly originally Etruscan) + -ise (suffix forming feminine nouns, often denoting a quality or state). The English word is analysable as merchant + -ise.