commerce
IPA: kˈɑmɝs
noun
- (business) 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.
- (card games) An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
- A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
verb
- (intransitive, archaic) To carry on trade; to traffic.
- (intransitive, archaic) To hold conversation; to communicate.
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Examples of "commerce" in Sentences
- Every branding effort in commerce is an attempt to create a separate identity for a product in the public mind.
- No previous use in commerce is required, and a simple affidavit is considered sufficient proof of use for renewal.
- Today, the high court claims that commerce is shorthand for any economic activity that could substantially affect a national market.
- This is what they call commerce, and as long as they pay taxes they believe it gives them the right to fleece the public of its money.
- Its latest results benefited from 30% growth in sales to enterprises and a 20% increase in sales to what it calls "commerce" customers.
- She lay long hours by the wharf-boats of busy towns, exchanging one cargo for another, in that anarchic fetching and carrying which we call commerce, and which we drolly suppose to be governed by laws.
- It's Official: President Obama names GOP Senator Judd Gregg Commerce Secretary The president officially taps New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, a Republican, for the position of commerce secretary at a ceremony at the White House this morning.
- The more perfect the power of association the greater must be the power to maintain commerce, for _every act of association is an act of commerce_, as it is proposed now to show, beginning at the beginning, in the family, which long precedes the nation.
- The architectural appearance of this edifice reminds us a little of the severe style of the florentine architecture; the large doorway is ornamented with the attributes of commerce, as likewise the coping of the edifice; two bas-reliefs, of eight and a half feet high, and sculptured on stone by David, representing the _symbols of navigation and commerce_, decorate the middle of the facade on the first floor.
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