merchandise

CEFRB1

/ˈmɜː.t͡ʃənˌdaɪs/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Goods that are bought and sold.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.

Examples

  • Should we send back the wrong merchandise?

  • The supermarket has a large stock of merchandise.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • /-daɪz/
  • /ˈmɜːt͡ʃəndaɪz/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

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

  2. Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.

  3. The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

More examples

In context

  • Good business depends on having good merchandise.

  • He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.

  • He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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.