0 the activities involved in buying and selling things:
1 the buying and selling of goods and services, esp. in large amounts:
We are trying to develop a model for best practice in electronic commerce.
They are trying to promote commerce between their countries.
Here was a version of philosophical commerce closer to our own definition of the word "commerce," yet one intimately related to practice.
The commerce, legal or otherwise, of private individuals was another matter.
Most writers were not interested in (pre)history per se, but rather in rationalising seventeenth-century concerns with governance, commerce, property and law.
Expenditures on street construction and maintenance possess a similarly dual function, encouraging environmental improvement but equally facilitating the transactions of commerce.
