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commerce

Noun

Transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) (synset 101092370)
tells us about:
- commercial - connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises
- noncommercial - not connected with or engaged in commercial enterprises
associated with:
- usance - the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange)
- commercialise, commercialize, market - make commercial
- buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
- take - buy, select
- get - purchase
- clear - sell
- turn - get by buying and selling
- negociate - sell or discount
- sell - exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent
- sell short - sell securities or commodities or foreign currency that is not actually owned by the seller, who hopes to cover (buy back) the sold items at a lower price and thus to earn a profit
- remainder - sell cheaply as remainders
- resell - sell (something) again after having bought it
- deaccession - sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works
- fob off, foist off, palm off - sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive
- realise, realize - convert into cash; of goods and property
- auction, auction off, auctioneer - sell at an auction
- deal, sell, trade - do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
- transact - conduct business
- deal - sell
- retail - sell on the retail market
- wholesale - sell in large quantities
- liquidize, sell out, sell up - sell or get rid of all one's merchandise
- trade, trade in - turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase
- merchandise, trade - engage in the trade of
- traffic - trade or deal a commodity
- arbitrage - practice arbitrage, as in the stock market
- turn over - do business worth a certain amount of money
- broker - act as a broker
- trust - (chiefly archaic) extend credit to
- pick up - buy casually or spontaneously
- barter away - trade in in a bartering transaction
- market - engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of
- market - deal in a market
- buy in, stock, stock up - amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- shop - do one's shopping
- market - buy household supplies
- browse, shop - shop around; not necessarily buying
- comparison-shop - compare prices for a given item
- antique - shop for antiques
- smuggle - import or export without paying customs duties
- import - bring in from abroad
- export - sell or transfer abroad
- hock, pawn, soak - leave as a guarantee in return for money
- impulse-buy - buy on impulse without proper reflection
- franchise - grant a franchise to
- retail - be sold at the retail level
- trade - be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions
is a type of: dealing, dealings, transaction - the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities)
subtypes:
- trading - buying or selling securities or commodities
- trade - the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services
- e-commerce - commerce conducted electronically (as on the internet)
- exchange, interchange - reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- initial offering, initial public offering, ipo - a corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public
- business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
- carriage trade - trade from upper-class customers
- importation, importing - the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country
- exportation, exporting - the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country
- marketing - the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service
- distribution - the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
- marketing, merchandising, selling - the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money
- traffic - buying and selling; especially illicit trade
- defrayal, defrayment, payment - the act of paying money
- evasion, nonpayment - the deliberate act of failing to pay money
has: shipping, transport, transportation - the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

same as: commercialism, mercantilism
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 (synset 108146250)
is a type of: executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States
has:
- bureau of the census, census bureau - the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States
- national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa - an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather
- technology administration - an agency in the Department of Commerce that works with United States industries to promote competitiveness and maximize the impact of technology on economic growth
- patent and trademark office database, patent office - the government bureau in the Department of Commerce that keeps a record of patents and trademarks and grants new ones
same as: commerce department, department of commerce, doc
Social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc. (synset 107152330)
is a type of: conversation - the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.

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