merchandise

Noun

commodities offered for sale
- "good business depends on having good merchandise"
Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme.
A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

Verb

engage in the trade of
To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
To engage in the trade of.
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
To promote as if for sale.

Examples

Good business depends on having good merchandise.
He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.
He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.
I saw a man selling Coldplay merchandise.
The record companies don't get as good a return on merchandising artists under contract.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

product, trade, ware, merch, wares

Scrabble Score: 19

merchandise: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
merchandise: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
merchandise: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 21

merchandise: valid Words With Friends Word