Merchandise vs Trading - What's the difference?
merchandise | trading |
(uncountable) Commodities offered for sale.
(countable) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
(uncountable) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
(archaic) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
(archaic) To engage in the trade of.
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
To promote as if for sale.
Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade.
(obsolete, rare) Frequented by traders.
* Milton
(obsolete) venal; corrupt; jobbing
The carrying on of trade.
* Bible, Revelations
As nouns the difference between merchandise and trading
is that merchandise is commodities offered for sale while trading is the carrying on of trade.As verbs the difference between merchandise and trading
is that merchandise is to engage in trade; to carry on commerce while trading is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective trading is
carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade.merchandise
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Alternative forms
* merchandize , merchaundise (obsolete),merchaundize (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- ''good business depends on having good merchandise
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "merchandise": returned, used, damaged, stolen, assorted, lost, promotional, industrial, cheap, expensive, imported, good, inferior.Synonyms
* wares * productVerb
(merchandis)- (Francis Bacon)
- He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.
- He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.
- The record companies don't get as good a return on merchandising artists under contract.
References
* * ----trading
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- a trading company
- they on the trading flood
- a trading politician
Noun
- But thy riches and thy tradings , thy merchandise, and they who trade thy traffic, shall fall into the heart of the seas
