MERCHANDISE


Meaning of MERCHANDISE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

general

Increasingly price-conscious consumers are shopping less at department stores and more at discount stores and general merchandise stores.

■ NOUN

trade

Figure 8-1 shows the size of the merchandise trade deficit.

Our cumulative merchandise trade deficit worldwide is more than $ 1 trillion.

Our international merchandise trade deficit in 1995 was nearly $ 174 billion.

■ VERB

buy

Are we really buying hot merchandise here?

Wall Street salesmen then try to fool investors into buying the overpriced merchandise .

And many parents are asking their co-workers to buy the merchandise .

Also, many shoppers who browse online end up buying the merchandise at a conventional store, Leathern said.

sell

In order to sell the merchandise , he or she invites friends and neighbours to a party.

He asked his wife to sell off the merchandise while he decided what to do with the storefront.

Many goods no longer even reach high street shelves as retailers sell merchandise direct to the black market.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The merchandise is attractively displayed and the assistants are friendly and helpful.

The fire at the warehouse destroyed merchandise valued at over $2 million.

The town has a tiny general store with wildly overpriced merchandise .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Also, anything on the Jaws films, especially merchandise , toys, etc.

Discs and other merchandise will be available, including the first Drakes shirts.

He would only need to sit quietly on his merchandise .

I want no part of hot merchandise .

In order to sell the merchandise , he or she invites friends and neighbours to a party.

On principle I am against owning too many establishments dealing in the same merchandise in the one town.

There had been snow in the Store, too, sprayed on merchandise around Christmas Fayre time.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

In the 1980s, he began merchandising his own hair care products.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

She recommends that retailers merchandise the fixture in four vertical segments according to absorbency and stack the brands horizontally.

When they did, they learned that they were good at buying food and merchandising it in their stores.

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