1. merchandise - Noun
2. merchandise - Verb
The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.
The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
To trade; to carry on commerce.
To make merchandise of; to buy and sell.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. William S. Burroughs
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. Adlai Stevenson II
I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise. Gabriel García Márquez
Unseen merchandise cannot be evaluated. Corsican Proverb
Bad merchandise is never cheap. French Proverb
Love's merchandise is jealousy and broken faith. Italian Proverb