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US
/ˈkɑmɝs/
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[ UK /kˈɒmɜːs/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒmɜːs/ ]
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
How To Use Commerce In A Sentence
- They are very much secluded from the rest of Chiloe, and have scarcely any sort of commerce, except sometimes in a little oil, which they get from seal-blubber. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
- The congress believes that the excavation of an interoceanic canal at sea level, so desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation, is feasible; and that, in order to take advantage of the indispensable facilities for access and operation which a channel of this kind must offer above all, this canal should extend from the Gulf of Limon to the Bay of Panama. The Path Between the Seas
- There is a fine square here called Madison, in the centre of which trees rise from fountain-watered grass, and statued figures of people who were men in their day and did things, palatial buildings, dignifying commerce, form the square. Impressions of a War Correspondent
- Waterford Chamber of Commerce are fully aware of the difficulties that its members are experiencing in recruiting suitable employees.
- I want to see Randy answer this question: 1. Accepting arguendo that mandating a person to buy health insurance is not regulation of commerce, there is no question that the rest of the bill is regulating the interstate market in health insurance*. The Volokh Conspiracy » A Quick Response to Randy on the Use of “Unprecedented”
- An arbitration tribunal from the International Chamber of Commerce ruled Cukurova Holding, owned by Turkish businessman Mehmet Karamehmet , must pay the amount, plus interest dating back to June 2007, after withdrawing from a deal to sell a stake in the company. TeliaSonera Wins Damages
- Aviation regulators closed roughly 80% of European airspace during the Easter holiday, stranding millions of people and upending global commerce. Sky Wars: Europe Battles to Erase Borders in the Air
- It's just that none of those festivals claims to be untarnished by commerce, unsmitten by celebrity, etc., etc. GreenCine Daily: Park City, 2/1.
- This documentary credit is subject to the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits International Chamber of Commerce (publication No. 600).
- Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, has been accompanied by results of a most interesting and impressive nature, and has created new conditions, not in the routes of commerce only, but in political geography, which powerfully affect our relations toward and necessarily increase our interests in any transisthmian route which may be opened and employed for the ends of peace and traffic, or, in other contingencies, for uses inimical to both. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)