Word Meanings - COMMERCIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. "Princely commercial houses." Macaulay. Commercial college, a school for giving instruction in commercial

Additional info about word: COMMERCIAL

Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. "Princely commercial houses." Macaulay. Commercial college, a school for giving instruction in commercial knowledge and business. -- Commercial law. See under Law. -- Commercial note paper, a small size of writing paper, usually about 5 by 7½ or 8 inches. -- Commercial paper, negotiable paper given in due course of business. It includes bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank cheks, etc. -- Commercial traveler, an agent of a wholesale house who travels from town to town to solicit orders. Syn. -- See Mercantile.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMMERCIAL)

• Mercantile
• Commercial
• Interchangeable
• wholesale
• retail
• marketable

Related words: (words related to COMMERCIAL)

• COMMERCIALLY
  In a commercial manner.
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• COMMERCIAL
  Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. "Princely commercial houses." Macaulay. Commercial college, a school for giving instruction in commercial
• RETAILMENT
  The act of retailing.
• WHOLESALE
  Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail. By wholesale, in the mass; in large quantities; without distinction or discrimination. Some, from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by
• MARKETABLE
  1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable. 2. Current in market; as, marketable value. 3. Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country.
• MERCANTILE
  Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial. The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile, partly military. Arbuthnot. Mercantile agency, an
• RETAIL
  The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.
• RETAILER
  One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.
• COMMERCIALISM
  The commercial spirit or method. C. Kingsley.
• INTERCHANGEABLE
  1. Admitting of exchange or mutual substitution. "Interchangeable warrants." Bacon. 2. Following each other in alternate succession; as, the four interchangeable seasons. Holder. -- In`ter*change"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`ter*change"a*bly, adv.
• COUNTRETAILLE
  A counter tally; correspondence . At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer.
• FIRETAIL
  The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt.