Commerce vs Financial - What's the difference?
commerce | financial |
(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.
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* 1881 , :
(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
(dated) To carry on trade; to traffic.
(dated) To hold intercourse; to commune.
Related to finances.
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As a verb commerce
is .As an adjective financial is
related to finances.commerce
English
Noun
- Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.
- 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.
- (Hoyle)
Synonyms
* trade, traffic, dealings, intercourse, interchange, communion, communication * See alsoDerived terms
* chamber of commerce * commercialVerb
(commerc)- Beware you commerce not with bankrupts. -B. Jonson.
- Commercing with himself. -Tennyson.
- Musicians ... taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven. -Prof. Wilson.
External links
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English
Adjective
(-)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
