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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Merchandise \Mer"chan*dise\, noun [F. marchandise, OF. marcheandise.]
1. The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities. --Spenser.
2. The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Merchandise \Mer"chan*dise\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Merchandised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Merchandising}.] To trade; to carry on commerce. --Bacon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Merchandise \Mer"chan*dise\, verb (used with an object) To make merchandise of; to buy and sell. ''Love is merchandised.'' --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
merchandise
noun: commodities offered for sale; "good business depends on having good merchandise"; "that store offers a variety of products" [syn: {wares}, {product}]
verb: engage in the trade of; "he is merchandising telephone sets" [syn: {trade}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "merchandise": advertise, be in, buy and sell, carry, close out, commodities, convert into cash, cut under, deal in, distribute, dump, effect a sale, effects, goods, handle, job, job lot, line, make a sale, market, move, produce, products, promote, provender, provisions, publicize, resell, retail, sacrifice, sell, sell off, sell on consignment, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale, staples, stock, supplies, trade, trade in, traffic in, turn into money, turn over, undercut, undersell, unload, vendibles, wares, wholesale
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