Commerce
Official economic activity
Commerce is the activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale between businesses, regions, or nations: interstate commerce, international commerce.
The word implies organized trade rather than casual transactions.
A chamber of commerce is a local business association.
Commerce can extend to any exchange or dealings between people: social commerce, the commerce of ideas.
Commercial activity or occupation
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
- transactionExchange of goods/money
- goodsThings for sale
- importObtain from overseas
export · wholesale · retail · commodities · barter · buying · selling · marketplace
Traveling group with goods
- silk roadRoute surfaced with fine fabric
- spice tradeHistorical exchange of aromatics
- guildProfessional mutual-aid society
- bazaarOpen-air merchant district
maritime · colonial · East India Company · mercantilism · trading post · barter · port · fleet
Private profit-based economy
- marketVenue for trade
- industryEconomic production sector
- sectorDistinct division of whole
- GDPNational output abbreviation
growth · investment · profit · revenue · competition · monopoly · regulation · deregulation
Network-connected state
- AmazonGreek warrior women
- ShopifyE-commerce website builder
- checkoutPayment completion process
- cartVehicle for hauling
PayPal · Alibaba · storefront · dropshipping · fulfillment · click-through · conversion · platform
business
Commercial activity or occupation
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
- transactionExchange of goods/money
- goodsThings for sale
import · export · wholesale · retail · commodities · barter · buying · selling · marketplace · vendor
caravan
Traveling group with goods
- silk roadRoute surfaced with fine fabric
- spice tradeHistorical exchange of aromatics
- guildProfessional mutual-aid society
bazaar · maritime · colonial · East India Company · mercantilism · trading post · barter · port · fleet · exchange
capitalism
Private profit-based economy
GDP · growth · investment · profit · revenue · competition · monopoly · regulation · deregulation · free trade
online
Network-connected state
cart · PayPal · Alibaba · storefront · dropshipping · fulfillment · click-through · conversion · platform · subscription
contract
Enforceable written agreement
- agreementShared position between parties
- licenseFormal grant of permission
- trademarkRegistered commercial identifier
patent · compliance · antitrust · liability · terms · warranty · invoice · receipt · dispute · arbitration
- Congressional Committeesappropriations, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Science, Labor
- Jackson County GeorgiaJefferson, Nicholson, Maysville
- Route 66Chicago, Santa Monica, Flagstaff, Amarillo, Gallup
- federal agenciesFBI, CIA, EPA, IRS, CDC
- government agenciesFBI, CIA, NASA, IRS, EPA
- East LA AreaAlhambra, Montebello
Commerceunemployment
Being without paid work
economic stagnation · idleness · recession · inactivity · depression
Commercecharity
Voluntary aid for others
gift-giving · philanthropy · donation · altruism · barter
Commerceasceticism
Severe self-denial practice
domesticity · private life · leisure · spirituality · monasticism
- TV commercialsPaid broadcast promotions
- commercial breakBroadcast advertising interval
- global commerceInternational exchange of goods
- television commercialsPaid broadcast promotional segments
- commercial whalingBusiness of catching cetaceans
- commercial jetLarge passenger aircraft
commercial, commercially, commercialism, commercialize, commercialization, commercialized, commercializing, commercials