EGAVE

commerce

About 22.90 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. 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.
  2. noun Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
  3. noun Sexual intercourse.
    carnal commerce
  4. noun An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
  5. verb To carry on trade; to traffic.
  6. verb To hold conversation; to communicate.

Similar words

commercialism mercantilism commerce department department of commerce market trade business brokering retail trading

Often followed by

and of in commission with is clause was to

Word family

commerced commerces commercing

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