| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sell goods |
| Synonyms: | advertise, buy and sell, deal in, distribute, do business in, market, promote, publicize, retail, trade, traffic in, vend, wholesale |
| Antonyms: | buy |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commerce, trade |
| Synonyms: | affairs, bargaining, barter, buying and selling, capital and labor, commercialism, contracts, deal, dealings, exchange, free enterprise, game, industrialism, industry, manufacturing, market, merchandising, production and distribution, racket, sales, selling, trading, traffic, transaction, undertaking |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
| Main Entry: | commerce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | business, dealing, dealings, economics, exchange, industry, marketing, merchandising, merchantry, retailing, trade, traffic, truck, wholesaling |
| Main Entry: | commercial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning business, marketing |
| Synonyms: | across the counter, bartering, commissary, economic, exchange, financial, fiscal, for sale, in demand, in the market, market, marketable, mercantile, merchandising, monetary, pecuniary, popular, profit-making, profitable, retail, retailing, saleable, sales, supplying, trade, trading, wholesale, wholesaling |
| Antonyms: | noncommercial |
| Main Entry: | selling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the act of selling |
| Synonyms: | auction, auctioning, bartering, merchandising, sale, trading, transacting, transfer, transferring, vending |
| Antonyms: | acquiring, buying, purchasing |
| Main Entry: | selling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the occupation of selling |
| Synonyms: | business, commerce, commercial enterprise, merchandising, traffic |
| Main Entry: | trading |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business |
| Synonyms: | affairs, bargaining, barter, buying and selling, capital and labor, commerce, commercialism, contracts, deal, dealings, exchange, free enterprise, game, industrialism, industry, manufacturing, market, merchandising, production and distribution, racket, sales, selling, trade, traffic, transaction, undertaking |
| Main Entry: | market |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | package and sell goods |
| Synonyms: | advertise, barter, display, exchange, merchandise, offer for sale, retail, vend, wholesale |
| Antonyms: | buy |
| Main Entry: | sell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exchange an object for money |
| Synonyms: | advertise, auction, bargain, barter, be in business, boost, clinch the deal, close, close the deal, contract, deal in, dispose, drum, dump, exchange, handle, hawk, hustle, market, merchandise, move, peddle, persuade, pitch, plug, puff, push, put across, put up for sale, retail, retain, snow, soft sell, soft soap, spiel*, stock, sweet talk, trade, traffic, unload, vend, wholesale |
| Notes: | a cell is a small compartment or the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms, while sell means to exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent |
| Antonyms: | buy |