How do you use the word "merchandise" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "merchandise": Should we send back the wrong merchandise? The supermarket has a large stock of merchandise.

Merchandise Meaning

/ˈmɜː.t͡ʃənˌdaɪs/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounGoods which are or were offered or intended for sale.

nounCommercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)

Sentence Examples

Should we send back the wrong merchandise?

The supermarket has a large stock of merchandise.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

trade product ware

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The store displayed its ____ on the shelves for customers to buy.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The department store displayed its latest ____ in the large front windows to attract holiday shoppers.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Anglo-Norman marchaundisebor. Latin mercātus Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem Old French marcheant Old French -ise Old French marcheandisebor. Middle English marchaundise English merchandise From Middle English marchaundise (“commerce, trading; buying; business transaction, deal; merchandise, goods, wares; possessions”), from Anglo-Norman marchaundise and Old French marcheandise (modern French marchandise), from Old French marcheant (“seller, vendor”) (ultimately from Latin mercātus (“buying and selling, trade, traffic; market; marketplace”), possibly originally Etruscan) + -ise (suffix forming feminine nouns, often denoting a quality or state). The English word is analysable as merchant + -ise.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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: […]" — 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 84, column 2:

"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." — 1908, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional papers. Inventory control record 1, page 29:

"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]." — 1936, Cecil Day Lewis, The Whispering Roots, Jonathan Cape, page 175:

"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." — 1622, John Wing (Minister of the English congregation at Flushing.), The Best Merchandise, Or a Cleare Discovery of the Evident Difference, and Admirable Advantage, Between Our Traffike with God for the True Treasure and with Men for Temporall Commodity, page 9:

"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?" — 1822 June 18, Great Britain. Parliament, “Marriage Act Amendment Bill”, in The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, published 1823, page 1135:

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