merchandising
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Middle English marchaundising (“commerce, trading; commodities, goods; (plural) dealings with other persons”) [and other forms],[1] from marchaundisen (“to engage in commerce, traffic”)[2] (see further at merchandise (verb)) -ing (suffix forming gerunds).[3] The English word is analysable as merchandise -ing (suffix forming nouns from verbs).[4]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɜːt͡ʃ(ə)ndaɪzɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɝt͡ʃənˌdaɪzɪŋ/
- Hyphenation: mer‧chand‧is‧ing
Noun
[edit]merchandising (usually uncountable, plural merchandisings)
- (also attributively) gerund of merchandise
- (archaic) Trade in merchandise.
- 1616, Iohn Smith [i.e., John Smith], A Description of New England: […], London: […] Humfrey Lownes, for Robert Clerke; […], →OCLC, page 34:
- May not the miſerable ruine of Conſtantinople, their impregnable vvalles, riches, and pleaſures laſt taken by the Turke (vvhich are but a bit, in compariſon of their novv mightines) remember vs, of the effects of priuate couetouſneſs? […] His [the Byzantine emperor's] pouertie vvhen the Turke beſeiged, the citizens (vvhoſe marchandizing thoughts vvere onely to get vvealth, little conceiuing the deſperate reſolution of a valiant expert enemy) left the Emp[eror] ſo long to his concluſions, hauing ſpent all he had to pay his young, ravv, diſcontented Souldiers; that ſodainly he, they, and their citie vvere all a prey to the deuouring Turke.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usurie. XLI.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 240:
- The Diſcommodities of Vſury are: Firſt, that it makes fevver Merchants. For vvere it not, for this Lazie Trade of Vſury, Money vvould not lie ſtill, but vvould, in great Part, be Imployed vpon Merchandizing; VVhich is the Vena Porta of VVealth in a State.
- 1769, William Blackstone, “Of Offences against God and Religion”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book IV (Of Public Wrongs), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 63:
- Profanation of the lord's day, or ſabbath-breaking, is a ninth offence againſt God and religion, puniſhed by the municipal lavvs of England. […] And therefore the lavvs of king Athelſtan forbad all merchandizing on the lord's day, under very ſevere penalties.
- 1840 May 8, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture II. The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, pages 44–45:
- [A] Ocadh, in the South of Arabia, there were yearly fairs, and there, when the merchandising was done, Poets sang for prizes:—the wild people gathered to hear that.
- 1868, Robert Browning, “I. The Ring and the Book.”, in The Ring and the Book. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 47, lines 898–903:
- (originally US) The promotion of goods for sale in a store, especially through advertising, attractive displays, discounts, etc.; also (generally), the promotion of any goods or services for sale.
- Synonym: marketing
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXVII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section V, page 318:
- Now, these strikers: Honest, they're not such bad people. Just foolish. They don't understand the complications of merchandizing and profit, the way we businessmen do, but sometimes I think they're about like the rest of us, and no more hogs for wages than we are for profits.
- 2009 February 27, Steven Heller, “Noel Martin, inventive catalog designer, dies at 86”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 February 2022:
- With the ubiquitous branding and expert merchandizing of museums today, it is easy to forget that graphic design was once a low priority for them.
- (specifically) The promotion of a film, music group, theatre production, etc., through the sale of goods bearing motifs associated with the subject being promoted; also, such goods themselves collectively; merchandise.
- (archaic) Trade in merchandise.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]trade in merchandise
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promotion of goods for sale in a store; promotion of any goods or services for sale
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promotion of a film, etc., through the sale of goods bearing motifs associated with the subject being promoted; such goods themselves collectively
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Verb
[edit]merchandising
- present participle and gerund of merchandise
References
[edit]- ^ “marchaundīsing(e, ger.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “marchaundīsen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “-ing(e, suf.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “merchandising, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “merchandising, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
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merchandising on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Noun
[edit]merchandising m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “merchandising”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English merchandising.
Noun
[edit]merchandising m (uncountable)
- merchandising, publicity, advertising
- Synonyms: publicidade, propaganda
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]merchandising m (plural merchandisings)
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