merchandise

Meanings

Noun

• Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
• A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
• The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

Verb

• To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
• To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
• To engage in the trade of.
• To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
• To promote as if for sale.

Related

Similar words

• merch
• wares
• product

Origin

• From Middle English marchaundise, from Anglo-Norman marchaundise, from marchaunt.
• Morphologically merchant + -ise