commerce : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an article that is offered for sale
  

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• noun an association of businessmen to protect and promote business interests
  

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• . See Chamber.
• a board or association to protect the interests of commerce, chosen from among the merchants and traders of a city.

Webster 1913

• noun the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913
  Commerce; Commerce Department; DoC.
  

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• noun the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Commerce
  Commerce Secretary.
  
  • the first Commerce Secretary was William C. Redfield who was appointed by Wilson
• noun the position of the head of the Department of Commerce
  Commerce Secretary.
  
  • the position of Commerce Secretary was created in 1913

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• noun the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913
  Commerce; Commerce Department; DoC.
  

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• noun a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1903 and split into two departments in 1913
  

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• noun commerce conducted electronically (as on the internet)
  

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• n. commerce that involves transportation of articles of commerce across state lines [U.S.].

Webster 1913

• noun a former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states; was terminated in 1995
  ICC.
  
  • the ICC was established in 1887 as the first federal agency

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• The governmental commision charged with making and enforcing regulations concerning interstate commerce.

Webster 1913

• noun the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Commerce
  Commerce Secretary.
  
  • the first Commerce Secretary was William C. Redfield who was appointed by Wilson
• noun the position of the head of the Department of Commerce
  Commerce Secretary.
  
  • the position of Commerce Secretary was created in 1913

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• noun head of a former executive department created in 1903 and divided into two departments in 1913
  

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