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merchaundize

merchaundize is the obsolete form 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 merchaundize

pluralmerchaundizes

Questions about merchaundize

What is merchaundize the obsolete form of?
Merchaundize is the obsolete form of merchandise.

Words near merchaundize in the dictionary

  1. merchantships
  2. merchantwoman
  3. merchantwomen
  4. merchaundise
  5. merchaundises
  6. merchaundize
  7. merchaundizes
  8. merchaunt
  9. merchaunts
  10. merched
  11. mercheen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: merchaundize (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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