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commerces

commerces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of commerce.

Meaning of commerce

Verb

commerce (third-person singular simple present commerces, present participle commercing, simple past and past participle commerced)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To carry on trade; to traffic.
    • [A]lwaies beware you commerce not with bankrupts, […]1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii...
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To hold conversation; to communicate.
    • No, sir, he, / Vex'd with a morbid devil in his blood / That veil'd the world with jaundice, hid his face / From all men, and commercing with himself, / He lost the sense that handles daily life— […]1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Walking to the Mail”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 48

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Questions about commerces

What is commerces the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Commerces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of commerce.

Words near commerces in the dictionary

  1. commerce raiders
  2. commerce raiding
  3. commerceable
  4. commerced
  5. commerceless
  6. commerces
  7. commerciable
  8. commercial
  9. commercial at
  10. commercial ats
  11. commercial bank

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