Commerce : (noun)
1: transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of
supplying commodities (goods and services) [syn: commercialism,
mercantilism]
2: 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 [syn: Department of Commerce, Commerce
Department, Commerce, DoC]
3: social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Commerce : \Com"merce\, n.
Note: (Formerly accented on the second syllable.) [F.
commerce, L. commercium; com- _ merx, mercis,
merchandise. See Merchant.]
1. The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp.
the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between
different places or communities; extended trade or
traffic.
The public becomes powerful in proportion to the
opulence and extensive commerce of private men.
--Hume.
2. Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in
society with another; familiarity.
Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce
with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.
--Macaulay.
3. Sexual intercourse. --W. Montagu.
4. A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to
exchange, barter, or trade. --Hoyle.
Chamber of commerce. See Chamber.
Syn: Trade; traffic; dealings; intercourse; interchange;
communion; communication.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Commerce : \Com*merce"\ (? or ?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Commerced;
p>. pr. & vb. n. Commercing.] [Cf. F. commercer, fr. LL.
commerciare.]
1. To carry on trade; to traffic. [Obs.]
Beware you commerce not with bankrupts. --B. Jonson.
2. To hold intercourse; to commune. --Milton.
Commercing with himself. --Tennyson.
Musicians . . . taught the people in angelic
harmonies to commerce with heaven. --Prof.
Wilson.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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COMMERCE, trade, contracts. The exchange of commodities for commodities;
considered in a legal point of view, it consists in the various agreements
which have for their object to facilitate the exchange of the products of
the earth or industry of man, with an intent to realize a profit. Pard. Dr.
Coin. n. 1. In a narrower sense,Commerce : signifies any reciprocal
agreements between two persons, by which one delivers to the other a thing,
which the latter accepts, and for which he pays a consideration; if the
consideration be money, it is called a sale; if any other thing than money,
it is called exchange or barter. Domat, Dr. Pub. liv. 1, tit. 7, s. 1, n. 2.
Congress have power by the constitution to regulate commerce with foreign
nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes. 1 Kent.
431; Story on Const. Sec. 1052, et seq. The sense in which the word commerce
is used in the constitution seems not only to include traffic, but
intercourse and navigation. Story, Sec. 1057; 9 Wheat. 190, 191, 215, 229; 1
Tuck. Bl. App. 249 to 252. Vide 17 John. R. 488; 4 John. Ch. R. 150; 6 John.
Ch. R. 300; 1 Halst. R. 285; Id. 236; 3 Cowen R. 713; 12 Wheat. R. 419; 1
Brock. R. 423; 11 Pet. R. 102; 6 Cowen, R. 169; 3 Dana, R. 274; 6 Pet. R.
515; 13 S. & R. 205.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Commerce, CA (city, FIPS 14974)
Location: 33.99537 N, 118.15024 W
Population (1990): 12135 (3330 housing units)
Area: 16.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Commerce, GA (city, FIPS 19112)
Location: 34.20588 N, 83.46118 W
Population (1990): 4108 (1724 housing units)
Area: 12.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 30529
Commerce, MO (town, FIPS 15760)
Location: 37.15809 N, 89.44656 W
Population (1990): 173 (67 housing units)
Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Commerce, OK (city, FIPS 16500)
Location: 36.93188 N, 94.86994 W
Population (1990): 2426 (1107 housing units)
Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 74339
Commerce, TX (city, FIPS 16240)
Location: 33.23816 N, 95.90077 W
Population (1990): 6825 (3139 housing units)
Area: 16.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 75428
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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