commerce

1. 1.

   transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

   Synonymscommercialismmercantilism

   Broadertransaction

   Narrowertradingtradee-commerceexchangeinitial public offeringcommercial enterprisecarriage tradeimportingexportingmarketing

   Partstransportation
2. 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

   SynonymsDepartment of CommerceCommerce DepartmentDoC

   Broaderexecutive department

   PartsBureau of the CensusNational Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationTechnology AdministrationPatent and Trademark Office Database
3. 3.

   social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.

   Broaderconversation

Other forms of commerce

plural

commerces·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about commerce

What does commerce mean?

commerce means "transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in commerce?

commerce has 2 syllables: com-merce. The stress falls on "com". In IPA it is /ˈkɑmɚs/.

What is another word for commerce?

Close synonyms include commercialism, mercantilism, Department of Commerce, Commerce Department, DoC. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is commerce a common word?

commerce is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with commerce?

1 word rhymes with commerce. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.