n. 商业, 商务, 贸易

[经] 商业, 贸易, 商务

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.


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.