merchandise
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Anglo-Norman marchaundisebor. Proto-Italic *merks Latin merx Latin mercor Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus 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.
- derived from marcheandise
- derived from marchaundise
- inherited from marchaundise — “commerce, trading; buying; business transaction, deal; merchandise, goods, wares; possessions”
Definitions
Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
- Good business depends on having good merchandise.
- So, if a Sonne that is by his Father ſent about Merchandize, doe ſinfully miſcarry vpon the Sea; the imputation of his vvickedneſſe, by your rule, ſhould be impoſed vpon his Father that ſent him: […]
- The custom of giving away merchandise for advertising purposes is greatly on the increase in this country. More goods are now distributed in one year as advertising novelties and as premiums than in a decade 10 or 15 years ago.
Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company,…
Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)
A commodity offered for sale
A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
- Would we then see in what sence heavenly things may be called a merchandise, and in what sence not; this is easy to him that will understand.
- What security was there that she might not be a very unfit person, one who had made a merchandise of her charms, the child itself being the offspring of some accidental connexion?
- Who feeds a flock, and makes not a merchandise of the sheep?
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The act or business of trading
The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
To engage in trade
To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of…
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
- He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.
To engage in the trade of.
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
- He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.
To promote as if for sale.
- The record companies don't get as good a return on merchandising artists under contract.
The neighborhood
- synonymmerch
- synonymwares
- synonymproduct
- neighbormercantile
- neighbormerchant
- neighbormerchantable
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at merchandise. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at merchandise. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at merchandise
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA