Definitions for Commerce

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Commerce com·merce

Spelling: [kom-ers]

IPA: /ˈkɒm ərs/

Commerce is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in Commerce (cceemmor).

Definitions for Commerce

noun

1. an interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale between different countries (foreign commerce) or between different parts of the same country (domestic commerce) trade; business.
2. social relations, especially the exchange of views, attitudes, etc.
3. sexual intercourse.
4. intellectual or spiritual interchange; communion.
5. (initial capital letter). Also called Commerce Department. Informal. the Department of Commerce.
6. a town in SW California.

Origin of Commerce

1530-40; Middle French Latin commercium, equivalent to commerc(ārī) to trade together (com- com- + mercārī to buy, deal, derivative of merc-, stem of merx goods) + -iu

Examples for Commerce

E.g., the U.S. Chamber of commerce spent $136.3 million lobbying in 2012 and $74.7 million in 2013.

commerce crowds our rivers and rails, our skies, harbors, and highways.

Spar has a new book titled The Baby Business: How Money, Science and Politics Drive the commerce of Conception.

commerce follows the flag only when the flag flies on merchant ships.

Following the collapse of the Roman Empire, all of Europe faltered as trade and commerce dried up.

This is the Mexico that the U.S. Chamber of commerce, and most major U.S. corporations, are eager to call amigo.

It remained throughout these many changes an important center of commerce.

“If Charleston harbor needs improvement, let the commerce of Charleston bear the burden,” he said.

Through the centuries of war men have only played at commerce.

The former is engaged in commerce and the latter is the popular member for Leeds.