- trade, especially between countries; the buying and selling of goods and services
- Leaders of industry and commerce met at the summit in Paris.
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessc1, Politicsc1- She has little experience of the world of commerce.
- The marketplace was where commerce was traditionally carried on.
- The marketplace was where merchants engaged in commerce.
- commerce between China and Africa
- the development of commerce with Asia
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- foreign
- global
- international
- …
- engage in
- regulate
- affect
- …
- commerce between
- commerce with
- a chamber of commerce
- the world of commerce
Word Originmid 16th cent. originally in the sense of social interaction between people: from French, or from Latin commercium ‘trade, trading’, from com- ‘together’ + mercium (from merx, merc- ‘merchandise’).Definitions on the go
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