Corporate vs Commerce - What's the difference?
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Of or relating to a corporation.
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Unified into one body; collective.
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(finance) A bond issued by a corporation
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(obsolete) To incorporate.
(obsolete) To become incorporated.
(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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(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.
As nouns the difference between corporate and commerce
is that corporate is a bond issued by a corporation while 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.As verbs the difference between corporate and commerce
is that corporate is to incorporate while commerce is to carry on trade; to traffic.As an adjective corporate
is of or relating to a corporation.corporate
English
Adjective
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- They answer in a joint and corporate voice.
Derived terms
* corporate anorexia * corporate censorship * corporate executive * corporate image * corporate income tax * corporate ladder * corporate monster * corporate nationalism * corporate officer * corporate seal * corporate tax * corporate veil * corporatelyNoun
(en noun)Verb
(corporat)- (Stow)
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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.
