commerce

Plural

commerces

1. 1.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.

2. 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.
   • Suppose we held our converse not in words, but in music; those who have a bad ear would find themselves cut off from all near commerce, and no better than foreigners in this big world.

3. 3.An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

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• commercial