Definition of Merchandise

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Merchandise

The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.

The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

To trade; to carry on commerce.

To make merchandise of; to buy and sell.

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Merchandise Quotations

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.
Les Brown

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.
William Bernbach

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
William S. Burroughs

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.
Frank McCourt

Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn.
James Cash Penney

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
James Cash Penney

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
Billy Corgan

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.
Jessica Lange

Merchandise Translations

merchandise in Dutch is koopwaar, handelswaar, waar
merchandise in Finnish is tavara
merchandise in German is Handel treiben, Ware, Handelsware
merchandise in Portuguese is mercadoria
merchandise in Swedish is handelsvaror

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