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commerce - 14 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | commerce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | business, dealings, economics, exchange, industry, marketing, trade, traffic, truck, dealing, merchandising, merchantry, retailing, wholesaling |
| Main Entry: | dealings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business relations |
| Synonyms: | business, commerce, doings, intercourse, proceedings, sale, things, trade, traffic, truck, affairs, balls in air, concerns, irons in fire, matters, ropes, strings, transactions, wire pulling, wires |
| Main Entry: | finance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economic affairs |
| Synonyms: | banking, business, commerce, economics, investment, money, accounts, financial affairs, money management |
| Main Entry: | sale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exchange of object for money |
| Synonyms: | auction, barter, business, buying, clearance, commerce, consuming, deal, demand, disposal, enterprise, marketing, negotiation, purchase, purchasing, reduction, selling, trade, transaction, closeout, dumping, unloading, vending, vendition |
| Main Entry: | marketing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shopping |
| Synonyms: | buying, commerce, purchasing, selling, retailing |
| Main Entry: | contact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | form of communication |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, association, channel, commerce, communion, companionship, connection, influence, intercourse, junction, meeting, network, touch, union, unity |
| Main Entry: | exchange |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trade; deal |
| Synonyms: | barter, change, commerce, commutation, conversion, correspondence, interchange, network, quid pro quo, reciprocity, replacement, revision, shift, shuffle, substitution, swap, switch, tit for tat*, traffic, transaction, transfer, truck*, buying and selling, castling, dealing, interdependence, interrelation, rearrangement, reciprocation, shuffling, supplanting, supplantment, transposing, transposition |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | industry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manufacturing |
| Synonyms: | business, commerce, corporation, management, mob, monopoly, multinational, outfit*, production, trade, traffic, big business, commercial enterprise, manufactory, megacorp |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | barter, business, clientele, commerce, contract, custom, deal, enterprise, exchange, industry, interchange, market, patronage, public, swap, traffic, transaction, truck, customers, dealing, merchantry, sales |
| Main Entry: | intercourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | communication; business exchange |
| Synonyms: | association, commerce, communion, connection, contact, converse, correspondence, dealings, give-and-take, interchange, mesh, teamwork, trade, traffic, intercommunication, networking, team play, transactions |
| Antonyms: | miscommunication |
| Main Entry: | patronage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business done at an establishment |
| Synonyms: | buying, clientele, commerce, custom, shopping, trade, traffic, clientage, trading |
| Antonyms: | competition |
| Main Entry: | traffic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | barter, business, closeness, commerce, communication, communion, connection, custom, dealings*, doings*, exchange, familiarity, industry, interchange, intercourse, intimacy, patronage, relationship, soliciting, trade, truck*, dealing, merchantry, peddling, relations, transactions |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | selling |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | the occupation of selling |
| Synonyms: | business, commerce, traffic, commercial enterprise, merchandising |
| Main Entry: | connection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that communicates, relates |
| Synonyms: | affinity, application, association, bearing, bond, commerce, communication, correlation, correspondence, intercourse, kinship, link, marriage, nexus, partnership, reciprocity, relation, relationship, togetherness, interrelation, relevance, tie-in |
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