commerce

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

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noun transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
noun 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
noun social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.

Borrowed from Middle French commerce, from Latin commercium. Doublet of comess.

Industry and Commerce” (pt. ii, 546). — William Pitt and national revival, J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
THE HIGHWAYS OF TRADE AND COMMERCE XXIII. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster
Commerce is almost exclusively with English ports. — Impressions of South Africa, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce

commercialism, mercantilism

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