🇬🇧🇨🇳 commerce - 商业 : English Lesson

Meaning of "commerce" ("商业"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Commerce means all the buying and selling of things, usually with money. It includes people who make things, people who sell things, and people who buy things. Commerce can happen in a small shop, in a giant store, or between countries far away. When you see stores, markets, or websites where people trade money for goods or services, that is commerce happening.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

Grandma said she understood modern commerce, then tried to pay online with a cookie taped to the screen.

Our classroom commerce system collapsed when everyone wanted to buy pencils and nobody wanted to sell them.

The baby invented a new kind of commerce: one hug for each stolen french fry.

Dragon commerce is dangerous; you pay with gold, and if you’re too slow, you also pay with your eyebrows.

Commerce has been around for thousands of years—long before money, people used cows, shells, and even giant stone wheels for trading, which made carrying wallets a serious workout.

A woman set up a small table on the street, selling warm bread. The town watched this commerce: coins exchanged, hands kept warm. Children came, learning commerce by watching each sale. Neighbors cheered every commerce act. The old man counted coins, smiling at the commerce that fed him. Everyone felt safe; commerce had brought them close.

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This word is at the C1 level, which means it’s part of advanced English. It’s used in sophisticated conversations, professional settings, and academic discussions. Words at this level help you express yourself fluently and precisely in nuanced situations.

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