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  • 31commerce — [16] Commerce is etymologically related to market, merchandise, merchant, and mercury. It comes, perhaps via French commerce, from Latin commercium ‘trade’, a compound noun formed from the collective prefix com ‘together’ and merx ‘merchandise’.… …

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  • 32merchant — /ˈmɜtʃənt / (say merchuhnt) noun 1. someone who buys and sells commodities for profit; a wholesaler. 2. (usually preceded by a defining term) Colloquial a person noted or notorious for the specified behaviour: panic merchant; standover merchant.… …

  • 33Commerce Bank Arts Centre — The Commerce Bank Arts Centre is a 2,500 seat theatre located in Washington Township, in Gloucester County, New Jersey that is one of South Jersey s major entertainment venues.Completed in 1998, the 2,500 seat Center was originally designed as… …

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  • 34Merchant Marine of Switzerland — Swiss Ocean worthy ferry Villars Basel docks …

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  • 35merchant — merchantlike, adj. /merr cheuhnt/, n. 1. a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader. 2. a storekeeper; retailer: a local merchant who owns a store on Main Street. 3. Chiefly Brit. a wholesaler. adj. 4. pertaining to or… …

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  • 36Merchant — This name, with variant spellings Marchent, Marchand, Marquand, Merchant and Le Marchant, derives from the Old French marcheant (Middle English marchand ), meaning a merchant or trader, and was originally given as an occupational name to a buyer… …

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  • 37merchant — [13] Latin merx denoted ‘goods for sale’. From it was derived the verb mercārī ‘trade’ (whose past participle was the source of English market). Mercārī was adapted in Vulgar Latin to mercātāre, whose present participle mercātāns produced the Old …

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  • 38merchant — [13] Latin merx denoted ‘goods for sale’. From it was derived the verb mercārī ‘trade’ (whose past participle was the source of English market). Mercārī was adapted in Vulgar Latin to mercātāre, whose present participle mercātāns produced the Old …

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  • 39merchant flag — noun : a flag flown by the merchant vessels of a country that is sometimes identical with the national flag * * * the ensign used by all ships engaged in commerce, fishing, etc. * * * merchant flag, a flag flown by a merchant ship …

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  • 40Commerce (ship) — The Commerce was a Connecticut based American merchant sailing ship that ran aground in 1815 at Cape Bojador, off the coast of what is now Western Sahara. Far more famous than the ship itself is the story of the crew who survived the shipwreck,… …

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