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Purchasing vs Commerce - What's the difference?

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Purchasing is a related term of commerce.


As verbs the difference between purchasing and commerce

is that purchasing is while commerce is .

As a noun purchasing

is the act of making a purchase.

purchasing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a purchase.
  • * 1936 , James Arthur Fulton, Our economic nationalism: its purpose and importance (page 84)
    • As our exports and imports are now nearly in balance, it is assumed that such bargaining, if agreed to, would induce the debtor nations to greatly increase their purchasings from us

    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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