commerce
Buying and selling
Commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services, especially on a large scale between businesses or nations: international commerce, the commerce clause of the Constitution.
The word suggests trade as a system or activity rather than individual transactions.
Extended uses cover any exchange or interaction: the commerce of ideas, social commerce.
Open-air merchant district
- marketplaceVenue for commerce
- vendorOne who sells goods
- stallEnclosed compartment or delay
- boothTemporary enclosed compartment
farmers market · flea market · souk · agora · auction · hawker · peddler · fair
Direct goods-for-goods exchange
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
- importObtain from overseas
- exportForeign-bound sale
- tariffsTaxes on imports
customs · trade agreements · free trade · trade barriers · transaction · goods · commodities · trafficking
Concerning relations among countries
- multinationalOperating across multiple countries
- globalizationWorldwide economic and cultural integration
- cross-borderSpanning national boundaries
- foreign investmentFunds placed in another country
supply chain · outsourcing · offshoring · shipping · logistics · world market · transnational · economic integration
Acquiring goods at retailers
- storefrontRetail facade facing street
- salesRevenue from goods moved
- boutiqueSmall specialized retail shop
- supermarketSelf-service food retailer
mall · checkout · customer · brick-and-mortar · inventory · point-of-sale · consumerism · department store
Medium of exchange
- bankingFinancial institution transactions
- creditRecognition or payment deferral
- transactionExchange of goods/money
- paymentFulfilling a financial obligation
invoice · accounts · ledger · billing · letter of credit · factoring · remittance · money transfer
Legally separate business entity
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
- startupNew business enterprise
- franchiseLicensed business operation
- partnershipShared business arrangement
merger · acquisition · shareholder · dividend · profitability · venture · enterprise · firm
Industrial product creation
- productionMaking or generating something
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- industrializationTransition to factory-based economy
- textilesWoven or knit materials
mass production · supply · distribution · raw materials · processing · fabrication · assembly · industrial zone
bazaar
Open-air merchant district
- marketplaceVenue for commerce
- vendorOne who sells goods
- stallEnclosed compartment or delay
booth · farmers market · flea market · souk · agora · auction · hawker · peddler · fair · trade show
barter
Direct goods-for-goods exchange
tariffs · customs · trade agreements · free trade · trade barriers · transaction · goods · commodities · trafficking · smuggling
international
Concerning relations among countries
- multinationalOperating across multiple countries
- globalizationWorldwide economic and cultural integration
- cross-borderSpanning national boundaries
foreign investment · supply chain · outsourcing · offshoring · shipping · logistics · world market · transnational · economic integration · maritime trade
shopping
Acquiring goods at retailers
- storefrontRetail facade facing street
- salesRevenue from goods moved
- boutiqueSmall specialized retail shop
supermarket · mall · checkout · customer · brick-and-mortar · inventory · point-of-sale · consumerism · department store · shopkeeper
currency
Medium of exchange
- bankingFinancial institution transactions
- creditRecognition or payment deferral
- transactionExchange of goods/money
payment · invoice · accounts · ledger · billing · letter of credit · factoring · remittance · money transfer · foreign exchange
corporation
Legally separate business entity
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
- startupNew business enterprise
- franchiseLicensed business operation
partnership · merger · acquisition · shareholder · dividend · profitability · venture · enterprise · firm · company
manufacturing
Industrial product creation
- productionMaking or generating something
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- industrializationTransition to factory-based economy
textiles · mass production · supply · distribution · raw materials · processing · fabrication · assembly · industrial zone · workshop
- business termsfranchising, revenue stream, board meeting, gross margin, markdown
- capitalismcapitalism, free market, free enterprise, private property, profit motive
- global tradefree trade, export tax, exports, import tax, imports
- tradetrade balance, free trade, trade barriers, customs, trade deficit
- medieval economyfiefs, manors, serfs, vassals, lords
- trade historytrade routes, traders, colonial economy, trader, trade route
commerceembargo
Official prohibition on trade
boycott · trade ban · blockade · inactivity · unemployment
commerceself-sufficiency
Independence from outside aid
charity · philanthropy · gift-giving · donation · gift economy
commercesubsistence
Minimal means of living
self-sufficiency · homesteading · domestic production · household economy · personal use
- 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, commercials, commercialized, commercialize, commercially, noncommercial, ecommerce, commercialism, commercializing