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merchandize

merchandize is the obsolete spelling of merchandise.

merchandize is the uncommon spelling of merchandise.

Meaning of merchandise

Noun

merchandise (usually uncountable, plural merchandises)

  1. (usually) Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
    • Good business depends on having good merchandise.
  2. (usually) Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)
  3. (archaic, countable, usually) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
    • Would we then see in what sence heavenly things may be called a merchandise, and in what sence not; this is easy to him that will understand.1622, John Wing (Minister of the English congregation at Flushing.), The Best Merchandise, Or a Cleare Discovery of the Evident Difference, and Admirable Advantage, Between Our Traffike with God for...
  4. (archaic, usually) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

See all 9 meanings of merchandise

Forms of merchandize

Noun
pluralmerchandizes
Verb
third-person singular presentmerchandizes
present participlemerchandizing
past participlemerchandized
pastmerchandized

Questions about merchandize

What is merchandize the obsolete spelling of?
Merchandize is the obsolete spelling of merchandise.

Words near merchandize in the dictionary

  1. merchandiser
  2. merchandisers
  3. merchandises
  4. merchandising
  5. merchandisings
  6. merchandize
  7. merchandized
  8. merchandizer
  9. merchandizers
  10. merchandizes
  11. merchandizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: merchandize (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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