merchandise

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   commodities offered for sale

   good business depends on having good merchandise

2. 2
   noun

   Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.

   Good business depends on having good merchandise.

3. 3
   noun

   A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.

   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. 4
   verb

   To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.

   He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.

5. 5
   verb

   To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.

   He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.

6. 6
   verb

   To promote as if for sale.

   The record companies don't get as good a return on merchandising artists under contract.

7. 7
   verb

   engage in the trade of

8. 8
   noun

   Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)

Etymology

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.