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Dictionary: mer·chan·dise   (mûr'chən-dīz', -dīs') pronunciation
n. (Abbr. mdse.)
Goods bought and sold in business; commercial wares.


v. merchandise (-dīz') also mer·chan·dize (-dīz'), -dised, also -dized, -dis·ing, -diz·ing, -dis·es, -diz·es.

v.tr.
  1. To buy and sell (goods).
  2. To promote the sale of, as by advertising or display: merchandised a new product.
v.intr.
To buy and sell goods; trade commercially.

[Middle English merchaundise, from Old French marchandise, trade, from marcheant, marchand, merchant. See merchant.]

merchandisable mer'chan·dis'a·ble adj.
merchandiser mer'chan·dis'er n.

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Business Dictionary: Merchandise
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Goods and commodities sold at the retail level. Merchandising is the buying, presenting, and selling of merchandise. This includes all the related activities of advertising, displaying, and promoting merchandise to the retail customer.

Thesaurus: merchandise
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noun

    A product or products bought and sold in commerce: commodity, good (used in plural), line, ware. See matter, transactions.

verb

    To offer for sale: deal (in), handle, market, merchant, peddle, retail, sell, trade (in), vend. See transactions.

Antonyms: merchandise
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n

Definition: goods
Antonyms: services

v

Definition: sell goods
Antonyms: buy


Word Tutor: merchandise
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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Things bought and sold. Also: To deal in.

pronunciation Junk is the ultimate merchandise. — William Burroughs (1857-1898)

Translations: Merchandise
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - (handels)varer
v. tr. - handle med
v. intr. - handle

Nederlands (Dutch)
koopwaar, handelen in, bevorderen van verkoop

Français (French)
n. - marchandise
v. tr. - promouvoir la vente de
v. intr. - faire du commerce/du négoce

Deutsch (German)
n. - Handelsware
v. - handeln, vermarkten

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (οικον.) εμπόρευμα (κν. πραμάτεια)
v. - εμπορεύομαι, διαπραγματεύομαι

Italiano (Italian)
merce

Português (Portuguese)
n. - mercadoria (f)
v. - negociar

Русский (Russian)
товары, торговля, торговать, содействовать распространению товара

Español (Spanish)
n. - mercancías, mercaderías
v. tr. - comerciar, traficar, negociar
v. intr. - comerciar, traficar, negociar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - (handels)varor
v. - handla, handla med, marknadsföra

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
商品, 货物, 买卖, 经营, 促进...的销售, 推销, 经商

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 商品, 貨物
v. tr. - 買賣, 經營, 促進...的銷售, 推銷
v. intr. - 經商

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 제품
v. tr. - 거래를 하다
v. intr. - 장사를 하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 商品
v. - 取引する, 販売を促進する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) بضائع, سلع (فعل) يتاجر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮סחורות‬
v. tr. - ‮סחר, קידם מכירות, פרסם סחורות‬
v. intr. - ‮עסק במסחר‬


 
 
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