Definition of Commerce

Commendation

COMMERCE noun

	A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Commonwealth

Regular definition:

COMMERCE:
?k?m?:s n. 1 financial transactions, esp. the buying and selling of merchandise, on a large scale. 2 social intercourse (the daily commerce of gossip and opinion). 3 archaic sexual intercourse. [F commerce or L commercium (as COM-, mercium f. merx mercis merchandise)]

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