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   merchandise

   noun

   • 1. goods to be bought and sold: "shops which offered an astonishing range of merchandise"
   • ▪ branded products used to promote a film, pop group, etc., or linked to a fictional character; merchandising: "the official merchandise for the film"

   verb

   • 1. promote the sale of (goods), especially by their presentation in retail outlets: "a new breakfast food can easily be merchandised"
   • ▪ promote or publicize (an idea or person): "they are merchandising ‘niceness’ to children"
   • ▪ engage in the business of a merchant: "anyone who is not of that Guild may not merchandise with them"
   • ▪ trade or traffic in (something), especially inappropriately: "it if be below great men to be kind of recompense, and merchandise their Power"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French marchandise, from marchand ‘merchant’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. merchandisable adjective
   • 2. merchandiser noun

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