commerce

How to use commerce in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for commerce.

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Editorial note

Traditional commerce feels a bit off, at best.

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Quick take

transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of commerce gathered in one view.

noun

transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

noun

the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913

noun

social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for commerce.

noun

transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

noun

the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913

noun

social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.

Example sentences

Traditional commerce feels a bit off, at best.

Mr. Bezos has some of that same flair and, when combined with adept entrepreneurial skills, stands to make an amazing mark in the annals of commerce.

In what universe could the Internet NOT be considered interstate commerce?

They can't do that because that is interstate commerce, which the Constitution says is regulated by Congress, not the states.

Most e-commerce merchants have to reacquire their customers for every transaction.

You see glowing articles that talk about Jeff as if he were a visionary, boldly leading his commerce site into the future of web services.

We respect that you might not agree with this, but don't feel the need to spend additional resources paying for our computer programmers, underwriters, lawyers, and accountants to give you an expensive education in the realities of e-commerce on our nickel.

I honestly believe Facebook was taking them out of the market with this buy;- Pinterest: through affiliate and advertising revenue I see potential for this company to be a huge business with massive ability to drive traffic to commerce sites.

To their credit everyone was very supportive of my passion but in the end the company gets to decide what they are going to do with your work product, and I could not get Sun Labs to sponsor my secure version of Java and while I felt e-commerce was going to define the killer App, realistically in 1995 I was about 7 years too early to that particular party.