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merchandised

merchandised is the simple past and past participle of merchandise.

Meaning of merchandise

Verb

merchandise (third-person singular simple present merchandises, present participle merchandising, simple past and past participle merchandised)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
  2. (intransitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
    • He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.
  3. (archaic, transitive) To engage in the trade of.
  4. (transitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
    • He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.
  5. (transitive) To promote as if for sale.
    • The record companies don't get as good a return on merchandising artists under contract.

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Questions about merchandised

What is merchandised the simple past and past participle of?
Merchandised is the simple past and past participle of merchandise.

Words near merchandised in the dictionary

  1. merchanded
  2. merchanding
  3. merchandisability
  4. merchandisable
  5. merchandise
  6. merchandised
  7. merchandiser
  8. merchandisers
  9. merchandises
  10. merchandising
  11. merchandisings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: merchandised (page history and authors); merchandise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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