Merchandise

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Merchandise \Mer"chan*dise\, n. [F. marchandise, OF.
     marcheandise.]
     1. The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or
        sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods;
        commodities. --Spenser.
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     2. The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Merchandise \Mer"chan*dise\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Merchandised};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Merchandising}.]
     To trade; to carry on commerce. --Bacon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Merchandise \Mer"chan*dise\, v. t.
     To make merchandise of; to buy and sell. "Love is
     merchandised." --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  merchandise
       n : commodities offered for sale; "good business depends on
           having good merchandise"; "that store offers a variety of
           products" [syn: {wares}, {product}]
       v : engage in the trade of; "he is merchandising telephone sets"
           [syn: {trade}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "merchandise":
     advertise, be in, buy and sell, carry, close out, commodities,
     convert into cash, cut under, deal in, distribute, dump,
     effect a sale, effects, goods, handle, job, job lot, line,
     make a sale, market, move, produce, products, promote, provender,
     provisions, publicize, resell, retail, sacrifice, sell, sell off,
     sell on consignment, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short,
     sell up, sell wholesale, staples, stock, supplies, trade, trade in,
     traffic in, turn into money, turn over, undercut, undersell,
     unload, vendibles, wares, wholesale