commerce

Meanings

Plural: commerces

Noun

• transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
• the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913
• social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.
• 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.
• Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
• Sexual intercourse.
• An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

Verb

• To carry on trade; to traffic.
• To hold conversation; to communicate.

Synonyms

Commerce Department, commercialism, communication, communion, dealings, Department of Commerce, DoC, interchange, intercourse, mercantilism, trade, traffic