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wellknown | commerce |

As an adjective wellknown

is (nonstandard).

As a verb commerce is

.

wellknown

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (nonstandard)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 1, author=Mike Peed, title=The Persistence of Guilt, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Elie Wiesel has become so wellknown a crusader against hatred, violence and persecution that one can forget he has also been, from the beginning, a writer. }}

    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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