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commerce
n. [F. commerce, L. commercium; com- + merx, mercis, merchandise. See Merchant.]1. The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic. ()
The public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive commerce of private men. (Hume.)
2. Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity. ()
Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser. (Macaulay.)
3. Sexual intercourse. (W. Montagu.)
4. A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade. (Hoyle.)
Chamber of commerce. See Chamber. ()
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v. i. [Cf. F. commercer, fr. LL. commerciare.]1. To carry on trade; to traffic. ()
Beware you commerce not with bankrupts. (B. Jonson.)
2. To hold intercourse; to commune. (Milton.)
Commercing with himself. (Tennyson.)
Musicians . . . taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven. (Prof. Wilson.)


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