Commerce vs Clientele - What's the difference?

Commerce is a related term of clientele.

As a verb commerce

is .

As a noun clientele is

commerce

English

Noun

(business) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.

Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.

* Macaulay:

Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.

* 1881 , :

Suppose we held our converse not in words, but in music; those who have a bad ear would find themselves cut off from all near commerce , and no better than foreigners in this big world.

(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.

A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

(Hoyle)

Synonyms

* trade, traffic, dealings, intercourse, interchange, communion, communication * See also

Derived terms

* chamber of commerce * commercial

Verb

(commerc)

(dated) To carry on trade; to traffic.

Beware you commerce not with bankrupts. -B. Jonson.

(dated) To hold intercourse; to commune.

Commercing with himself. -Tennyson.

Musicians ... taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven. -Prof. Wilson.

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clientele

English

Alternative forms

Noun

(en-noun)

The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits.

As a sex worker, Helen's clientele encompasses a broad range of different ages, races and social statuses.

* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 34 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

The bars’ clientèle called Foucault “Herr Doktor ”.