merchandise
要点商品
意味
- (集合的に)商品(goods)
- …を売買する
- (広告などをして)…の販売を促進する
- 商売をする
例文
The supermarket has a large stock of merchandise.
そのスーパーマーケットは大量の商品在庫を持っている。
Should we send back the wrong merchandise?
間違った商品を送り返しましょうか。
Please send the merchandise by return.
折り返し商品を郵送するべし。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English marchaundise (“commerce, trading; buying; business transaction, deal; merchandise, goods, wares; possessions”), from Anglo-Norman marchaundise and Old French marcheandise (modern French marchandise), from Old French marcheant (“seller, vendor”) (ultimately from Latin mercātus (“buying and selling, trade, traffic; market; marketplace”), possibly originally Etruscan) + -ise (suffix forming feminine nouns, often denoting a quality or state). The English word is analysable as merchant + -ise.