Definition of commerce

"commerce" in the noun sense

1. commerce, commercialism, mercantilism

transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

2. Department of Commerce, Commerce Department, Commerce, DoC

the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office created in 1913

3. commerce

social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.

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Quotations for commerce

For me - I hold no commerce with despair! [ Dawes ]

Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility. [ Lord J. Manners ]

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations. [ T. Gray ]

Arts, commerce, and good government flourish together. [ T. G. Bergen ]

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals. [ Goldsmith ]

The usual trade and commerce, is cheating all round by consent. [ Proverb ]

The first want of any maritime tribe, or people, is commerce by navigation. [ Olive R. Seward ]

Commerce is a game of skill, which every one cannot play, which few men can play well. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests. [ James A. Garfield ]

To check the starts and sallies of the soul, and break off all its commerce with the tongue. [ Addison ]

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore and called it gold. [ Shelley ]

When a man is in indigence, picking herbs is his philosophy; the enjoyment of his wife his only commerce, and vassalage his food. [ Hitopadesa ]

The most lucrative commerce has ever been that of hope, pleasure, and happiness: it is the commerce of authors, women, priests, and kings. [ Mme. Roland ]

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, contingent, transitory, almost as liable to change as the winds and waves that waft it to our shores. [ Colton ]

Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled. [ Johnson ]

Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it, all give it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the mind and opinion of the age. [ Daniel Webster ]

Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body. On the due digestion of facts depends the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigour and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable in the commerce of life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts. [ Burke ]

commerce in Scrabble®

The word commerce is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters commerce:

COMMERCE
(171)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word commerce

COMMERCE
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In commerce

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commerce in Words With Friends™

The word commerce is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 20

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters commerce:

COMMERCE
(168)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word commerce

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In commerce

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Words within the letters of commerce

2 letter words in commerce (4 words)

3 letter words in commerce (5 words)

4 letter words in commerce (8 words)

5 letter words in commerce (1 word)

6 letter words in commerce (1 word)

8 letter words in commerce (1 word)

commerce + 1 blank (1 word)

commerce + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence commerce

Words that start with commerce (1 word)

Words with commerce in them (1 word)

Words that end with commerce (2 words)

Word Growth involving commerce

Shorter words in commerce

me

Longer words containing commerce

ecommerce