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noun
Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, usually
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noun
The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, uncountable, usually
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verb
To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive
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verb
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To engage in the trade of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To promote as if for sale.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
commodities offered for sale
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: ware, product
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: commodity, trade good, good
Narrower terms: cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment, contraband, feature, generic, ironmongery, irregular, second, line, product line, line of products, line of merchandise, business line, line of business, number, refill, release, schlock, shlock, dreck, software package, software product, stock, inventory, top of the line, yard goods, piece goods
verb
engage in the trade of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: trade
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: run, black market, traffic, arbitrage, market, import, export
History
Etymology tree Anglo-Norman marchaundisebor. Latin mercātus Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem Old French marcheant Old French -ise Old French marcheandisebor. Middle English marchaundise English merchandise 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.
Etymology tree Anglo-Norman marchaundisebor. Latin mercātus Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem Old French marcheant Old French -ise Old French marcheandisebor. Middle English marchaundise Proto-Indo-European *-o- Proto-Indo-European *-nom Proto-Indo-European *-onom Proto-Germanic *-aną Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Old English -an Middle English -en Middle English marchaundisen English merchandise From Middle English marchaundisen (“to engage in commerce, traffic”), from marchaundise (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).
Across languages
157 source translations are retained for this English entry.
