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Commerce vs Tractator - What's the difference?

commerce | tractator |

As nouns the difference between commerce and tractator

is that commerce is 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 while tractator is in medieval commerce, the person who handles or transports merchandise on behalf of an investor; an entrepreneur.

As a verb commerce

is to carry on trade; to traffic.

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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    tractator

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) In medieval commerce, the person who handles or transports merchandise on behalf of an investor; an entrepreneur.
  • * 1987 , John H. Pryor, Commerce, Shipping and Naval Warfare in the Medieval Mediterranean , page 172
    • As well as being greatly useful to tractators' who wanted to go on to further voyages or to stay overseas for a longer period, it was also indispensable when a ' tractator fell ill or died.
  • A person who writes tracts.
  • A Tractarian.
    • (Charles Kingsley)

    Related terms

    * tract