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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionarycom·merce I \ˈkä-(ˌ)mərs\ noun ETYMOLOGY Middle French, from Latin commercium, from com-+ merc-, merx merchandise DATE 15371. social intercourse : interchange of ideas, opinions, or sentiments2. the exchange or buying and selling of commodities on a large scale involving transportation from place to place3. sexual intercourseSynonyms: see business II \ˈkä-(ˌ)mərs, kə-ˈmərs\ intransitive verb (com·merced ; com·merc·ing) DATE 1596archaic : communeEnglish Etymologycommerce 1530s, from M.Frhttp://M.Fr. commerce, from L. commercium "trade, trafficking," from com- "together" + merx (gen. mercis) "merchandise" (see market).Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7commercecom·merce / 5kCmE:s; NAmE 5kB:mE:rs / noun[U] trade, especially between countries; the buying and selling of goods and services (尤指国际间的)贸易；商业；商务: leaders of industry and commerce 工商界领导人 ⇨ see also Chamber of CommerceOxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of EnglishOxford Collocations dictionary for students of Englishcommerce noun ADJ. domestic, international VERB + COMMERCE carry on, engage in The marketplace was where commerce was traditionally carried on. PREP. ~ between commerce between Germany and Italy | ~ with the development of commerce with Asia PHRASES a chamber of commerce, the world of commerce She has little experience of the world of commerce. OLTcommerce noun⇨ tradeWebster's Third New International Dictionary, UnabridgedSearch result show the entry is found in: commerce raider , or chamber of commercecom·merceI. \ˈkä(ˌ)mərs, -_məs, -ˌmə̄s, -ˌməis\ noun(-s)Etymology: Middle French, from Latin commercium, from com- + merc-, merx merchandise — more at market1. a. : social intercourse : dealings between individuals or groups in society : interchange of ideas, opinions, or sentiments < their commerce with the ancients appears to me to produce … a steadying … effect upon their judgment — Matthew Arnold > b. : dealings of any kind < their conviction that art has no commerce with morality — C.J.Glicksberg > : interrelationship, connection, or communication < the commerce between our intellectual … interests and the nature of experience — Herbert Feigl & W.S.Sellars >2. a. : the exchange or buying and selling of commodities especially on a large scale and involving transportation from place to place — compare trade, traffic b. commerces plural, obsolete : commercial transactions3. : mental or spiritual intercourse or relationship : communion < so hold I commerce with the dead — Alfred Tennyson >4. obsolete : an exchange (as of letters) < a commerce of letters between friends >5. : sexual intercourse6. obsolete : means of communication : passage7. : an old card game similar to whiskey poker in which each player in succession may exchange one of his three cards for another card until some one refuses, whereupon the best hand winsII. \“, kəˈmərs, käˈ-, -ˈmə̄s, -ˈməis\ intransitive verb(-ed/-ing/-s)Etymology: Middle French commercer, from commerce, n.: to hold personal intercourse or communication : commune — used with with < less disposed to commerce with my kind — Cornelius Weygandt >

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