commerce
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
commerce/ˈkɒmɜːs/
▶noun
- 1 the activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale.
- 2 dated social dealings between people.
- 3 archaic sexual intercourse.
– origin C16: from Fr., or from L. commercium ‘trade, trading’, based on merx, merc- ‘merchandise’.
'commerce' also found in these Oxford entries:
absorption costing
- accountant
- accounting
- accounts payable
- accounts receivable
- advice
- aftermarket
- against
- agribusiness
- agritourism
- amortize
- answering service
- antitrust
- asking price
- assess
- asset-stripping
- assurance
- assure
- audit
- auditor
- awayday
- back-end
- back office
- bad debt
- bankrupt
- best
- big box
- bill of goods
- bill of sale
- black money
- Board of Trade
- body corporate
- bond
- bonded
- bonded warehouse
- bonus issue
- bookkeeping
- book value
- bounty
- brand leader
- brand name
- break-even
- broker
- broking
- brown goods
- businessman
- buy-in
- buyout
- CAF
- call centre
