merchandise

Speech parts

1. merchandise - Noun

2. merchandise - Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

product wares ware trade stock inventory goods commodities merch consumer goods products hawk commerce flack vend
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Antonyms

own service screen debt challenge buy
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Hypernyms

good commodity trade good

Hyponyms

number line second market run release

Phrases with the word

merchandise certificate in retailing merchandise general merchandise store miscellaneous merchandise merchandise car

Derivatives

merchandised merchandising

Examples

The 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

Close letter words and terms

merchand merchandisability merchandisable merchandise car merchandise certificate merchandiser