commerce
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.
Other meanings
Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.a. 1769, Edmond Hoyle, Hoyle's Games
Synonyms
- trade
- traffic
- intercourse
- communion
- communication
Related words
- conversational commerce
- Commerce City
- commerce destroyer
- commerce raider
- commerce raiding
- s-commerce
- chamber of commerce
- commercial
- anticommerce
- biocommerce
- commerceless
- commerciable
Word history
From Latin "commercium".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “commerce” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.