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Merchandise

//ˈmɜː.t͡ʃənˌdaɪs// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale. uncountable, usually

    "Good business depends on having good merchandise."

  2. 2
    items for sale to the individual consumer wordnet
  3. 3
    Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.) uncountable, usually
  4. 4
    branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups wordnet
  5. 5
    A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise. archaic, countable, usually

    "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."

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  1. 6
    The act or business of trading; trade; traffic. archaic, uncountable, usually
Verb
  1. 1
    To engage in trade; to carry on commerce. archaic, intransitive
  2. 2
    engage in the trade of wordnet
  3. 3
    To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods. intransitive

    "He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain."

  4. 4
    To engage in the trade of. archaic, transitive
  5. 5
    To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of. transitive

    "He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines."

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  1. 6
    To promote as if for sale. transitive

    "The record companies don't get as good a return on merchandising artists under contract."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English marchaundisen (“to engage in commerce, traffic”), from marchaundise (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).

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