Definition of "merchandise"

merchandise¹

/ˈmɜːt͡ʃəndaɪs/

noun
usually uncountable, plural merchandises
1. (uncountable) Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
  Quotations
  The custom of giving away merchandise for advertising purposes is greatly on the increase in this country. More goods are now distributed in one year as advertising novelties and as premiums than in a decade 10 or 15 years ago.
  1908, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional papers. Inventory control record 1, page 29
  It has been stated that Fred Beers is giving free merchandise to this store and I believe you will find that one of your inspectors obtained a bottle of milk free when he purchased some groceries on Thursday Nov. 23rd .
  1936, Cecil Day Lewis, The Whispering Roots, Jonathan Cape, page 175
2. (uncountable) Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)
3. (countable, archaic) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
  Quotations
  Would we then see in what sence heavenly things may be called a merchandise, and in what sence not; this is easy to him that will understand.
  1622, John Wing (Minister of the English congregation at Flushing.), The Best Merchandise, Or a Cleare Discovery of the Evident Difference, and Admirable Advantage, Between Our Traffike with God for the True Treasure and with Men for Temporall Commodity, page 9
  What security was there that she might not be a very unfit person, one who had made a merchandise of her charms, the child itself being the offspring of some accidental connexion?
  1822 June 18, Great Britain. Parliament, “Marriage Act Amendment Bill”, in The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, published 1823, page 1135
  Who feeds a flock, and makes not a merchandise of the sheep?
  1839, The holy bible containing the old and the new testaments‎
4. (uncountable, archaic) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

merchandise²

/ˈmɜːt͡ʃəndaɪz/

verb
third-person singular simple present merchandises, present participle merchandising, simple past and past participle merchandised
1. (intransitive, archaic) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
2. (intransitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
3. (transitive, archaic) To engage in the trade of.
4. (transitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
5. (transitive) To promote as if for sale.

Definition of "merchandise"

merchandise1

noun

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merchandise2

verb

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