different between enterprises vs merchandise
enterprises
English
Noun
enterprises
- plural of enterprise
Verb
enterprises
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enterprise
Anagrams
- entreprises, intersperse, serpentries
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merchandise
English
Alternative forms
- merchandize (non?standard)
- merchaundise, merchaundize (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English marchaundise, from Anglo-Norman marchaundise, from marchaunt (“merchant”).
See etymology for merchant
Pronunciation
- (General American) (noun) IPA(key): /?m?t??n?da?s/, /?m?t??n?da?z/
- (General American) (verb) IPA(key): /?m?t??n?da?z/
- (Received Pronunciation) (noun) IPA(key): /?m??t??n?da?s/, /?m??t??n?da?z/
- (Received Pronunciation) (verb) IPA(key): /?m??t??n?da?z/
Noun
merchandise (usually uncountable, plural merchandises)
- (uncountable) Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
- 1908, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional papers. Inventory control record 1, page 29:
- The custom of giving away merchandise for advertising purposes is greatly on the increase in this country. More goods are now distributed in one year as advertising novelties and as premiums than in a decade 10 or 15 years ago.
- 1936, Cecil Day Lewis, The Whispering Roots, Jonathan Cape, page 175:
- It has been stated that Fred Beers is giving free merchandise to this store and I believe you will find that one of your inspectors obtained a bottle of milk free when he purchased some groceries on Thursday Nov. 23rd [1933].
- 1908, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional papers. Inventory control record 1, page 29:
- (uncountable) Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)
- (countable, archaic) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
- (uncountable, archaic) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to "merchandise": returned, used, damaged, stolen, assorted, lost, promotional, industrial, cheap, expensive, imported, good, inferior.
Synonyms
- merch
- wares
- product
Translations
Verb
merchandise (third-person singular simple present merchandises, present participle merchandising, simple past and past participle merchandised)
- (intransitive, archaic) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
- a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Of Usury
- merchandising , which is the vena porta of wealth in a State : the second , that it makes poor merchants ; for as a farmer cannot husband his grown so well if he sit at a great rent
- a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Of Usury
- (intransitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
- (transitive, archaic) To engage in the trade of.
- (transitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
- (transitive) To promote as if for sale.
Translations
Related terms
References
- merchandise at OneLook Dictionary Search
- merchandise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “merchandise”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “merchandise”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: merchandisent, merchandises
Verb
merchandise
- first-person singular present indicative of merchandiser
- third-person singular present indicative of merchandiser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of merchandiser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of merchandiser
- second-person singular imperative of merchandiser
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