commerce
pronunciation
How to pronounce commerce in British English:
UK [ˈkɒmɜːs]
How to pronounce commerce in American English:
US [ˈkɑːmɜːrs]
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- Noun:
- transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
- social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.
Word Origin
- commerce
- commerce: [16] Commerce is etymologically related to market, merchandise, merchant, and mercury. It comes, perhaps via French commerce, from Latin commercium ‘trade’, a compound noun formed from the collective prefix com- ‘together’ and merx ‘merchandise’. The adjective commercial is 17th-century, its nominal use for ‘broadcast advertisement’ 20thcentury.=> market, merchant, mercury
- commerce (n.)
- 1530s, from Middle French commerce (14c.), from Latin commercium "trade, trafficking," from com- "together" (see com-) + merx (genitive mercis) "merchandise" (see market (n.)).
Example
- 1. Women 's access to commerce and politics was declining .
- 2. The commerce department and noaa have denied the requests .
- 3. Few look beyond the world of commerce for answers .
- 4. This idea came with a renewed interest in commerce .
- 5. The constitution gives congress the power to regulate interstate commerce .