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  • Regno Unito//ˈkɒ.mɜːs//
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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.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.

    [A]ll libertine diſcourſe, and familiarities vvith vvomen, […] nay even friendſhip it ſelfe […] muſt be vvatched vvith great prudence to be kept ſafe: for vvhich cauſe in ſtead of all theſe perillous commerces of our love, I vvill preferre ſo ſecure an object to it, […]

    Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.

    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.

  3. 3

    obsoletoSexual intercourse.

    carnal commerce

  4. 4

    An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

Etimologia

Borrowed from Middle French commerce, from Latin commercium. Doublet of comess.

verbo

  1. 1

    arcaicoTo carry on trade; to traffic.

    [A]lwaies beware you commerce not with bankrupts, […]

  2. 2

    arcaicoTo hold conversation; to communicate.

    No, sir, he, / Vex'd with a morbid devil in his blood / That veil'd the world with jaundice, hid his face / From all men, and commercing with himself, / He lost the sense that handles daily life— […]

    Musicians […] taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven.

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Contenuto lessicale tratto da Wiktionary, sotto licenza CC BY-SA 4.0 · Voce di origine · Versione dei dati 2026-08-23

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