Meaning of merchandise | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
   uncountable, usually
2. Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)
   uncountable, usually
3. A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
   archaic, countable, usually
4. The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
   archaic, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Good business depends on having good merchandise.”

“So, if a Sonne that is by his Father ſent about Merchandize, doe ſinfully miſcarry vpon the Sea; the imputation of his vvickedneſſe, by your rule⟳, ſhould be impoſed vpon his Father that ſent him: […]”

“The custom of giving away merchandise for advertising purposes is greatly on the increase⟳ in this country. More goods are now distributed in one year as advertising novelties and as premiums than in a decade 10 or 15 years ago.”

“It has been stated that Fred Beers is giving free merchandise to this store and I believe⟳ you will find⟳ that one of your inspectors obtained a bottle of milk free when he purchased some groceries on Thursday Nov. 23rd [1933].”

“Would we then see⟳ in what sence heavenly things may be called a merchandise, and in what sence not; this is easy to him that will understand⟳.”

“What security was there that she might not be a very unfit person, one who had made a merchandise of her charms, the child itself being the offspring of some accidental connexion?”

“Who feeds a flock, and makes not a merchandise of the sheep?”

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