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commerce
/ˈkɑ.mɚs/
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What does commerce mean?
noun
- 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.
- An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
More meanings (4)
proper noun
- A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
noun
- (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
verb
- (archaic) To carry on trade; to traffic.
- (archaic) To hold conversation; to communicate.
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IPA pronunciation
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In a few of them, however, commerce nearly divides its empire, and in most of them has a considerable share of influence.
Whereas they ought to prosecute their exploiters in the courts, on them the courts will avenge the violations of liberty of commerce!
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This piratic power having got the dominion and control of all the Mediterranean, there was left no place for navigation or commerce.
Finally, a few words must be written regarding the means to be adopted in introducing the airship into the realms of commerce.
I do not object to Socialism because it will revolutionize our commerce, but because it will leave it so horribly the same.