merchandise
verb
- advertise, offer for sale
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈmɜː.t͡ʃənˌdaɪs/ / /-daɪz/ / /ˈmɝ.t͡ʃənˌdaɪs/ / /ˈmɜːt͡ʃəndaɪz/ / /ˈmɝt͡ʃəndaɪz/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Anglo-Norman marchaundisebor. Latin mercātus Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem Old French marcheant Old French -ise Old French marcheandisebor. Middle English marchaundise English merchandise From Middle English marchaundise (“commerce, trading; buying; business transaction, deal; merchandise, goods, wares; possessions”), from Anglo-Norman marchaundise and Old French marcheandise (modern French marchandise), from Old French marcheant (“seller, vendor”) (ultimately from Latin mercātus (“buying and selling, trade, traffic; market; marketplace”), possibly originally Etruscan) + -ise (suffix forming feminine nouns, often denoting a quality or state). The English word is analysable as merchant + -ise.
- Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
“Good business depends on having good merchandise.”
“So, if a Sonne that is by his Father ſent about Merchandize, doe ſinfully miſcarry vpon the Sea; the imputation of his vvickedneſſe, by your rule, ſhould be impoſed vpon his Father that ſent him: […]”
- Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)
- A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
“Would we then see in what sence heavenly things may be called a merchandise, and in what sence not; this is easy to him that will understand.”
“What security was there that she might not be a very unfit person, one who had made a merchandise of her charms, the child itself being the offspring of some accidental connexion?”
- The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Anglo-Norman marchaundisebor. Latin mercātus Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem Old French marcheant Old French -ise Old French marcheandisebor. Middle English marchaundise Proto-Indo-European *-o- Proto-Indo-European *-nom Proto-Indo-European *-onom Proto-Germanic *-aną Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Old English -an Middle English -en Middle English marchaundisen English merchandise From Middle English marchaundisen (“to engage in commerce, traffic”), from marchaundise (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).
- To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
- To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
“He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.”
- To engage in the trade of.
- To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
“He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.”
- To promote as if for sale.
“The record companies don't get as good a return on merchandising artists under contract.”