Merchandise
Mer´chan`dise
| n. | 1. | The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities. |
| 2. | The act or business of trading; trade; traffic. | |
| v. i. | 1. | To trade; to carry on commerce. |
| v. t. | 1. | To make merchandise of; to buy and sell. |
| Noun | 1. |  merchandise - commodities offered for sale; "good business depends on having good merchandise"; "that store offers a variety of products" |
| Verb | 1. | merchandise - engage in the trade of; "he is merchandising telephone sets" Synonyms: trade |
MERCHANDISE. By this term is understood all those things which merchants sell either wholesale or retail, as dry goods, hardware, groceries, drugs, &c. It is usually applied to personal chattels only, and to those which are not required for food or immediate support, but such as remain after having been used or which are used only by a slow consumption. Vide Pardess. n. 8; Dig. 13, 3, 1; Id. 19, 4, 1; Id. 50, 16, 66. 8 Pet. 277; 2 Story, R. 16, 53, 54; 6 Wend. 335.
advertise, be in, buy and sell, carry, close out, convert into cash, cut under, deal in, distribute, dump, effect a sale, effects, handle, job, job lot, line, make a sale, market, move, produce, products, provender, provisions, publicize, resell, retail, sacrifice, sell off, sell on consignment, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale, supplies, trade, trade in, traffic in, turn into money, turn over, undercut, undersell, unload, vendibles, wholesale