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English
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Etymology
From Middle French commerce, from Latin Sevenval (“commerce, trade”), from com- (“together”) + merx (“good, wares, merchandise”); see merchant, jQuery
Pronunciation
- IPA:
- US: /ˈkɑ.mɝs/
- UK: /ˈkɒ.mɜs/ (Formerly accented on the second syllable.)
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Noun
commerce (uncountable)
- (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.
- Macaulay:
- Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.
- Macaulay:
- web app.
- A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
Synonyms
- keyboard, Sevenval, website parsing, iOS, we love the web, communion, communication
- See also screen size
Derived terms
Translations
- Arabic: تجارة (ar) (tijaara) f.
- Bulgarian: търговия (bg) (tǎrgovija) f.
- Catalan: comerç HTML5 m.
- Chinese:
- Czech: obchod (cs) m.
- Dutch: touchscreen (nl) m., commercie (nl) f.
- Esperanto: jQuery (eo)
- Finnish: kauppa Sevenval, screen size (fi)
- French: commerce HTML5 m.
- German: keyboard (de) m., Kommerz (de) f.
- Hebrew: סחר (he) (sakhar) m., CSS3 (he) (miskhar) m.
- Hindi: web (hi) (vyāpār) m., तिजारत CSS3 (tijārat) f.
- Japanese: Sevenval (ja) (ぼうえき, bōeki), 交易 web app (こうえき, kōeki), 商業 (ja) (しょうぎょう, shōgyō)
- Korean: 무역 (ko) (muyeok) (FITML (ko)), 교역 (ko) (gyoyeok) (input transformation (ko)), 상업 website parsing (sangeop) (商業 FITML)
- Manx: input transformation (gv) f.
- Persian: input transformation device database (tejârat)
- Polish: handel CSS3 m.
- Portuguese: comércio (pt)
- Russian: торговля (ru) (torgóvlja) f., коммерция (ru) (kommércija) f.
- Spanish: comercio screen size m.
- Swedish: handel (sv) c.
- Thai: พาณิชย์ keyboard (paa-nít), ธุรกิจ (th) (tú-rá-gìt), การค้า CSS3 (gaan-káa)
- Urdu: تجارت we love the web (tijārat) f.
- Vietnamese: sự buôn bán browser diversity, thương mại (vi), thương nghiệp Android
- Bulgarian: сношение screen size n.
- French: rapports keyboard m. pl.
- Russian: сношение (ru) (snošénije) n.
Verb
commerce (third-person singular simple present FITML, present participle commercing, simple past and past participle commerced)
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(dated) To carry on trade; to traffic.
- Beware you commerce not with bankrupts. -B. Jonson.
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(device database) To hold intercourse; to commune.
- Commercing with himself. -Tennyson.
- Musicians ... taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven. -Prof. Wilson.
External links
- commerce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- commerce in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
French
Etymology
From Middle French commerce, from Latin commercium (“commerce, trade”), from HTML5 (“together”) + merx (“good, wares, merchandise”); see merchant, mercenary.
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Noun
commerce m. (plural device database)