Commerce : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Commerce	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Commerce
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commerce n transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) Synonym(s): commerce, commercialism, mercantilism 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 Synonym(s): Department of Commerce, Commerce Department, Commerce, DoC social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Commerce \Com"merce\, n. Note: (Formerly accented on the second syllable.) [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}. Syn: Trade; traffic; dealings; intercourse; interchange; communion; communication.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Commerce \Commerce"\ (? [or] ?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Commerced}; p>. pr. & vb. n. {Commercing}.] [Cf. F. commercer, fr. LL. commerciare.] 1. To carry on trade; to traffic. [Obs.] 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.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Commerce, CA (city, FIPS 14974) Location: 33.99537 N, 118.15024 W Population (1990): 12135 (3330 housing units) Area: 16.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Commerce, GA (city, FIPS 19112) Location: 34.20588 N, 83.46118 W Population (1990): 4108 (1724 housing units) Area: 12.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30529 Commerce, MO (town, FIPS 15760) Location: 37.15809 N, 89.44656 W Population (1990): 173 (67 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Commerce, OK (city, FIPS 16500) Location: 36.93188 N, 94.86994 W Population (1990): 2426 (1107 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 74339 Commerce, TX (city, FIPS 16240) Location: 33.23816 N, 95.90077 W Population (1990): 6825 (3139 housing units) Area: 16.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 75428