merchandise

Meanings

Noun

commodities offered for sale
- "good business depends on having good merchandise"
Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
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; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

Verb

engage in the trade of
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 goods.
To engage in the trade of.
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
To promote as if for sale.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

merch, product, trade, ware, wares

Scrabble Score: 19

merchandise is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
merchandise is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
merchandise is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 21

merchandise is a valid Words With Friends word