merchandise

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈmɜː.t͡ʃənˌdaɪs/|/-daɪz/    美 /ˈmɝ.t͡ʃənˌdaɪs/|/-daɪz/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale. uncountable,usually
    — Good business depends on having good merchandise.
  2. Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.) uncountable,usually
  3. A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise. archaic,countable,usually
    — 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.
  4. The act or business of trading; trade; traffic. archaic,uncountable,usually
动词 v.
  1. To engage in trade; to carry on commerce. archaic,intransitive
  2. To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods. intransitive
    — He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.
  3. To engage in the trade of. archaic,transitive
  4. To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of. transitive
    — He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.
  5. To promote as if for sale. transitive
    — The record companies don't get as good a return on merchandising artists under contract.

词形变化

merchandises plural merchandize alternative,obsolete merchaundise alternative,obsolete merchaundize alternative,obsolete mdse alternative,abbreviation merchandises present,singular,third-person merchandising participle,present merchandised participle,past merchandised past merchandize alternative,US

词汇关系

近义词
merch wares product
衍生词
distress merchandise merch merchandisability merchandisable remerchandise
相关词
mercantile merchant merchantable

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman marchaundisebor.
Latin mercātus
Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem
Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem
Old French marcheant
Old French -ise
Old French marcheandisebor.
Middle English marchaundise
English merchandise
From Middle English marchaundise (“commerce, trading; buying; business transaction, deal; merchandise, goods, wares; possessions”), from Anglo-Norman marchaundise and Old French marcheandise (modern French marchandise), from Old French marcheant (“seller, vendor”) (ultimately from Latin mercātus (“buying and selling, trade, traffic; market; marketplace”), possibly originally Etruscan) + -ise (suffix forming feminine nouns, often denoting a quality or state). The English word is analysable as merchant + -ise.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman marchaundisebor.
Latin mercātus
Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem
Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem
Old French marcheant
Old French -ise
Old French marcheandisebor.
Middle English marchaundise
Proto-Indo-European *-o-
Proto-Indo-European *-nom
Proto-Indo-European *-onom
Proto-Germanic *-aną
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Old English -an
Middle English -en
Middle English marchaundisen
English merchandise
From Middle English marchaundisen (“to engage in commerce, traffic”), from marchaundise (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).
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