Commerce

Quick meaning: Commerce is a noun meaning Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.

Meaning

Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.

More Meanings

1. (card games) An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
2. (intransitive, archaic) To carry on trade; to traffic.
3. (intransitive, archaic) To hold conversation; to communicate.
4. (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.
5. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.

Example Sentences

carnal commerce

[A]lwaies beware you commerce not with bankrupts, […]

Musicians […] taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven.

Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.

Word Forms

• commerces
• commercing
• commerced

Synonyms for commerce

Depending on context, synonyms include trade, traffic, dealings, intercourse, interchange, communion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include commercialism, mercantilism, market, trade, business, brokering.

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