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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
commerce
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chamber of commerce
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electronic
▪ But online stock trading was once one of the few reliably profitable areas of electronic commerce.
▪ These goals are the guiding buoys for firms plotting their course in the turbulent waters of electronic commerce.
▪ If music can cut out the computer in the middle, then so can films, books, audio and electronic commerce.
▪ To become a reality, electronic commerce needs a network infrastructure to transport the content.
▪ So, some aspects of the technical infrastructure for electronic commerce are already in place.
▪ However, investment without a clear idea of the electronic commerce architecture being built would be akin to driving with blinders on.
▪ Carrying the analogy further, the functions carried out by the human body would be the electronic commerce applications.
▪ Multimedia Content for E-Commerce Applications Multimedia content can be considered both fuel and traffic for electronic commerce applications.
global
▪ But pirates lurked in the shoals of global commerce, ready to plunder the cargoes.
▪ With its preeminent worldwide Web-hosting position, Verio is strategically poised to capitalize on the global electronic commerce explosion.
▪ And good intentions don't stand up in the rough and tumble of global commerce.
▪ This restriction creates a barrier for global electronic commerce.
international
▪ Experience of successfully presenting oneself at the highest level in international industry and commerce.
▪ The effect eventually reaches every business and every individual in the society, not just those involved in international commerce.
▪ But releasing the rice into international commerce is a more serious step.
▪ A key question is, therefore, whether industrial expansion and international commerce has a similar impact on the Third World.
interstate
▪ The statute confines itself to prohibiting the carriage of certain goods in interstate or foreign commerce.
▪ That clause limits the domestic lawmaking power of Congress to issues involving interstate commerce.
▪ Inspection for wholesomeness of meat and poultry in interstate and intrastate commerce is mandatory; inspection of imported meat is mandatory.
▪ A large proportion of meat and poultry food products move in interstate commerce.
▪ States may regulate local incidents of interstate commerce when Congress has not occupied the field. 23.
▪ Hey Matt, old pal, old buddy, this stuff got stolen from us, it was moving, interstate commerce.
▪ Congress may forbid discrimination in public accommodations that are related to interstate commerce. 28.
▪ Louis, Missouri, introduced a resolution which requested a committee investigation based on the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
local
▪ In many areas such schemes are operated by the local chamber of commerce or residents' association.
▪ Many local chambers of commerce are already taking a lead role in this process.
▪ Every school, even the smallest primary school, should also have a governor from local industry or commerce.
▪ The small-business component of the local chambers of commerce affiliated with us is even more conspicuous.
▪ Open unemployment is now up to 20 %, according to the local chamber of commerce.
▪ The forums are organized by the Business Youth Exchange, an intermediary group associated with the local chamber of commerce.
▪ In pointing to the large element of rates paid by local industry or commerce, the government had a stronger case.
▪ Chamber of Commerce and Telcom Ventures, is rapidly assembling a federation of state and local chambers of commerce across the country.
■ NOUN
application
▪ Carrying the analogy further, the functions carried out by the human body would be the electronic commerce applications.
▪ Multimedia Content for E-Commerce Applications Multimedia content can be considered both fuel and traffic for electronic commerce applications.
▪ The lack of comprehension can be attributed in part to the paucity of electronic commerce applications that the consumer has personally experienced.
▪ The challenge is to work around the existing law to enable various electronic commerce applications.
▪ As seen in Fig. 6. 2, electronic commerce applications are based on several elegant technologies.
▪ Developers of organizational electronic commerce applications must address these questions if they are to be successful.
▪ Electronic commerce applications are quite varied.
▪ Electronic commerce applications are being built on a foundation of global hypertext.
secretary
▪ Before becoming trade and commerce secretary, Wright was director of the California Department of Commerce for two years.
▪ A globe-trotting, business-building commerce secretary, he operated on the theory that a good defense is a good offense.
service
▪ Under the agreement, Verio will provide its leading Web hosting and e-commerce services to on-line merchants.
▪ Verio also provides e-commerce services ranging in price from $ 34.95 per month to $ 399.95 per month.
▪ Under the agreement, Qwest may also offer Verio's e-commerce services to its customers.
solution
▪ There are many e-commerce solutions and companies that supply them.
■ VERB
engage
▪ The Etruscans soon engaged in active commerce, which they boosted through piracy and warfare.
▪ The act also made it a crime to interfere with anyone engaged in inter-state commerce during a riot.
▪ They engaged in commerce, merchants setting off in carts and wagons for several thousand Ii.
regulate
▪ Congress is given power to regulate such commerce in unqualified terms.
▪ There is no analogy, then, between the power of taxation and the power of regulating commerce....
▪ But the power to regulate foreign commerce is necessarily exclusive.
▪ Louis, Missouri, introduced a resolution which requested a committee investigation based on the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
▪ That the power to regulate commerce includes the regulation of navigation, we consider settled.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He had a genuine talent for commerce and soon had a brilliant career working for the World Bank.
▪ interstate commerce
▪ One of the roles of the federal government is to regulate interstate commerce.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Almost continuous revolution for twenty-seven years following independence had disrupted industry, commerce, and all progressive development.
▪ Code of commerce, so to speak.
▪ Congress is given power to regulate such commerce in unqualified terms.
▪ However, alcohol commerce now imposes about 10 times more cost on society than it generates through taxation at all government levels.
▪ In many areas such schemes are operated by the local chamber of commerce or residents' association.
▪ Sad to say, science is no longer pure: commerce pays for it and commerce calls the tune.
▪ She could illustrate her arguments with clever examples drawn from the real world of commerce.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commerce

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.

Commerce

Commerce \Com*merce"\ (? 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
commerce

1530s, from Middle French commerce (14c.), from Latin commercium "trade, trafficking," from com- "together" (see com-) + merx (genitive mercis) "merchandise" (see market (n.)).

Wiktionary
commerce

n. 1 (context business English) The exchange or buying and selling of commodity; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic. 2 Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity. 3 (context obsolete English) sexual intercourse. 4 A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade. vb. 1 (context dated English) To carry on trade; to traffic. 2 (context dated English) To hold intercourse; to commune.

WordNet
commerce
  1. n. transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) [syn: commercialism, mercantilism]

  2. 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 [syn: Department of Commerce, Commerce Department, DoC]

  3. social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.

Gazetteer
Commerce, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 12568
Housing Units (2000): 3377
Land area (2000): 6.567812 sq. miles (17.010555 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.004868 sq. miles (0.012607 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.572680 sq. miles (17.023162 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14974
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 34.000613 N, 118.154781 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Commerce
Commerce, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia
Population (2000): 5292
Housing Units (2000): 2273
Land area (2000): 8.303967 sq. miles (21.507176 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.006680 sq. miles (0.017300 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.310647 sq. miles (21.524476 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19112
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 34.206520 N, 83.461203 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 30529
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Commerce
Commerce, OK -- U.S. city in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 2645
Housing Units (2000): 1079
Land area (2000): 0.818331 sq. miles (2.119467 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.818331 sq. miles (2.119467 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16500
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.933529 N, 94.871371 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 74339
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Commerce, OK
Commerce
Commerce, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 7669
Housing Units (2000): 3405
Land area (2000): 6.480944 sq. miles (16.785567 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.056332 sq. miles (0.145900 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.537276 sq. miles (16.931467 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16240
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.244959 N, 95.899957 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 75428
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Commerce, TX
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Commerce, MO -- U.S. village in Missouri
Population (2000): 110
Housing Units (2000): 49
Land area (2000): 0.319731 sq. miles (0.828100 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.319731 sq. miles (0.828100 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15760
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.157131 N, 89.446512 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Commerce
Wikipedia
Commerce

Commerce is the activity of buying and selling of goods and services, especially on a large scale . The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural and technological systems that are in operation in any country or internationally. Thus, commerce is a system or an environment that affects the business prospects of economies. It can also be defined as a component of business which includes all activities, functions involved in transferring goods from producers to consumers.

Commerce (disambiguation)

Commerce is a branch of production which deals with the exchange of goods and services from producer to final consumer.

Commerce may also refer to:

Commerce (river)

The river Bolbec or Commerce is one of the rivers that flow from the plateau of the southern Pays de Caux in the Seine-Maritime département of Haute-Normandie into the Seine.
The river rises at Bolbec and passes Gruchet-le-Valasse, where its name changes to the Commerce. It then passes through Lillebonne and joins the Seine at Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon.

Commerce (Paris Métro)

Commerce is a station on line 8 of the Paris Métro in the Rue du Commerce, at the intersection with the Place du Commerce in the 15th arrondissement.

The station was opened on 27 July 1937 as part of the extension of line 8 from La Motte-Picquet - Grenelle to Balard.

The rue du Commerce, as its name suggests, is a shopping street in the district of Grenelle. The whole span of the street, from Motte-Picquet to the Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, is occupied by a mix of high-street shopping, amongst which about 20 national and international brands, and small, typically parisian food stores and cafés. After major real estate development in the 1990s and early 2000s, the street and surrounding neighborhood have managed to maintain much of their peripheral faubourg or small-town feel while prospering as one of the two or three major centers for population attraction in the 15th arrondissement.

The center section of the place du Commerce is occupied by a small urban park.

The street is very narrow; when the station was built underneath it, the platforms had to be built offset from each other because of the limited space (as for the Métro station Liège).

Commerce station has two accesses, one on each side of the Place du Commerce. Both accesses are entrance/exit types and both lead to a central underground hall with ticket vending machines and information. The southern access is equipped with a street-bound mechanical elevator.

The Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, at the southern extremity of the rue du Commerce was built in 1825, and massively renovated between 1924 and 1926.

There are two Vélib' bicycle stations near Commerce station, one on the rue Lakanal opposite the station and one on the rue Violet on the far side of the Place du Commerce.

Commerce (ship)

The Commerce was a Connecticut-based American merchant sailing ship that ran aground on 28 August 1815 at Cape Bojador, off the coast of what is now Morocco. Far more famous than the ship itself is the story of the crew who survived the shipwreck, who went on to become slaves of local tribes who captured them.

The Commerce, sailing from Gibraltar to Cape Verde Islands, was led by American Captain James Riley and crewed by 11 others also mostly Americans. After sailing for several days in dense fog, the ship ran aground on a reef near Cape Bojador. After being attacked and ransacked on shore by Sahrawi natives, who killed in cold blood one of the seamen, the crew returned to their rowboat and attempted to reach the Cape Verde Islands or hoped to meet another passing ship. This proved impossible, as their meager provisions were running out, and they decided to return to shore and take their chances with the local tribes. Landing some 300 miles further south down the coast, near Cape Barbas, less than one hundred miles North of Cape Blanco, they were taken captive by nomads of the Oulad Bou Sbaa tribe.

Their story of extreme dehydration, severe starvation and ever-present brutality while roaming the Sahara desert with their captors became a published story, first in the 1820s in retelling by Captain Riley himself, and then in the 2004 account Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by American writer Dean H. King. The original Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce by the "Late Master and Supercargo James Riley is quoted by Abraham Lincoln as one of the six most influential books he read in his youth, and was republished as Sufferings in Africa, ISBN 978-1-59921-211-1.

Commerce (card game)

Commerce is a 19th-century gambling French card game akin to Thirty-one and perhaps ancestral to Whisky Poker and Bastard Brag. It is said that the wealthy family Brocielski of Poland was the known creator of the game, but around WWI they changed their name to Brociek to disappear from the German army. It aggregates a variety of games with the same game mechanics. Trade and Barter, the English equivalent, has the same combinations, but a different way of acquiring them. Trentuno, Trent-et-Uno, applies basically to the same method of play, but also has slightly different combinations.

Usage examples of "commerce".

Congressional legislation, thus affords some protection from state legislation inimical to the national commerce, and that in such cases, where Congress has not acted, this Court, and not the state legislature, is under the commerce clause the final arbiter of the competing demands of state and national interests.

Congress States were entitled to enact legislation adapted to the local needs of interstate and foreign commerce, that a pilotage law was of this description, and was, accordingly, constitutionally applicable until Congress acted to the contrary to vessels engaged in the coasting trade.

United States, might not, without any special authority for that purpose, in the then existing state of things, have empowered the officers commanding the armed vessels of the United States, to seize and send into port for adjudication, American vessels which were forfeited by being engaged in this illicit commerce.

Finally, after having remarked that times of tranquillity were the proper seasons for lessening the national debt, and strengthening the kingdom against future events, he recommended to the commons the improvement of the public revenue, the maintenance of a considerable naval force, the advancement of commerce, and the cultivation of the arts of peace.

Justice Stone seems to be engaged in an endeavor to erect this into an almost exclusive test of the validity, or invalidity of State taxation affecting interstate commerce.

Politics, law, agriculture, commerce, mathematical and physical sciences, and the arts, were all included.

As always, the streets of Koth were busy with commerce, but were almost oblivious to the return of the king.

In 1832, a treaty, bearing date the 20th of April, was executed between the British government in India and Meermoorad Ali, who at that time was the principal Ameer of Scinde, in which a bond of friendship was entered into, and mutual commerce was agreed upon.

I did not leave her for a moment, and in the morning, feeling quite recovered, her gratitude finished what my love had begun twenty-six years before, and our amorous commerce lasted while I stayed at Berlin.

The Court sustained the injunction against the objection that it violated freedom of the press, holding that appellant was guilty of attempting to monopolize interstate commerce.

The Greek element is strong in the maritime towns, and displays its natural aptitude for navigation and commerce.

But similar cases arising after the Civil War were disposed of by direct recourse to the commerce clause.

Where local and foreign milk alike are drawn into a general plan for protecting the interstate commerce in the commodity from the interferences, burdens and obstructions, arising from excessive surplus and the social and sanitary evils of low values, the power of the Congress extends also to the local sales.

We acquired Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and the Hudson Bay territory, and, in addition to the asiento, the right of trading in the possessions of the House of Bourbon--in fact, the commerce of the world.

In historical times the caduceus was the attribute of Hermes as the god of commerce and peace, and among the Greeks it was the distinctive mark of heralds and ambassadors, whose persons it rendered inviolable.