commerce
41commerce — copulation Literally, exchange or dealings between people, but long used of copulation, especially if it is outside marriage. Sexual commerce is explicit. Sinful commerce is not thieving or receiving stolen goods but copulating with a… …
42commerce — /ˈkɒmɜs / (say komers) noun 1. interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale between different countries (foreign commerce) or between different parts of the same country (domestic commerce or internal commerce); trade;… …
43commerce — 1. noun a) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic. Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with… …
44commerce — [16] Commerce is etymologically related to market, merchandise, merchant, and mercury. It comes, perhaps via French commerce, from Latin commercium ‘trade’, a compound noun formed from the collective prefix com ‘together’ and merx ‘merchandise’.… …
45commerce — noun (U) 1 the buying and selling of goods and services; trade 1 (1): measures promoting local commerce and industry 2 old fashioned relationships and communication between people see also: chamber of commerce …
46commerce — noun 1) industry and commerce Syn: trade, trading, buying and selling, business, dealing, traffic; (financial) transactions, dealings 2) dated human commerce Syn: relations, dealings, socializing …
47commerce — [16] Commerce is etymologically related to market, merchandise, merchant, and mercury. It comes, perhaps via French commerce, from Latin commercium ‘trade’, a compound noun formed from the collective prefix com ‘together’ and merx ‘merchandise’.… …
48commerce — n. 1 financial transactions, esp. the buying and selling of merchandise, on a large scale. 2 social intercourse (the daily commerce of gossip and opinion). 3 archaic sexual intercourse. Etymology: F commerce or L commercium (as COM , mercium f.… …
49Commerce — n. 1 financial transactions, esp. the buying and selling of merchandise, on a large scale. 2 social intercourse (the daily commerce of gossip and opinion). 3 archaic sexual intercourse. Etymology: F commerce or L commercium (as COM , mercium f.… …
50commerce — Synonyms and related words: ESP, act of love, activities, activity, adultery, affair, affairs, answer, aphrodisia, ass, bag, balling, basis, business, carnal knowledge, climax, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, collegiality,… …
