I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
general
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Increasingly price-conscious consumers are shopping less at department stores and more at discount stores and general merchandise stores.
■ NOUN
trade
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Figure 8-1 shows the size of the merchandise trade deficit.
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Our cumulative merchandise trade deficit worldwide is more than $ 1 trillion.
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Our international merchandise trade deficit in 1995 was nearly $ 174 billion.
■ VERB
buy
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Are we really buying hot merchandise here?
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Wall Street salesmen then try to fool investors into buying the overpriced merchandise .
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And many parents are asking their co-workers to buy the merchandise .
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Also, many shoppers who browse online end up buying the merchandise at a conventional store, Leathern said.
sell
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In order to sell the merchandise , he or she invites friends and neighbours to a party.
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He asked his wife to sell off the merchandise while he decided what to do with the storefront.
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Many goods no longer even reach high street shelves as retailers sell merchandise direct to the black market.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The merchandise is attractively displayed and the assistants are friendly and helpful.
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The fire at the warehouse destroyed merchandise valued at over $2 million.
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The town has a tiny general store with wildly overpriced merchandise .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, anything on the Jaws films, especially merchandise , toys, etc.
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Discs and other merchandise will be available, including the first Drakes shirts.
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He would only need to sit quietly on his merchandise .
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I want no part of hot merchandise .
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In order to sell the merchandise , he or she invites friends and neighbours to a party.
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On principle I am against owning too many establishments dealing in the same merchandise in the one town.
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There had been snow in the Store, too, sprayed on merchandise around Christmas Fayre time.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In the 1980s, he began merchandising his own hair care products.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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She recommends that retailers merchandise the fixture in four vertical segments according to absorbency and stack the brands horizontally.
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When they did, they learned that they were good at buying food and merchandising it in their stores.