{
    "term": "commerce",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "trade, especially between countries; the buying and selling of goods and services",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Leaders of industry and commerce met at the summit in Paris."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has little experience of the world of commerce."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The marketplace was where commerce was traditionally carried on."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The marketplace was where merchants engaged in commerce."
                },
                {
                    "text": "commerce between China and Africa"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the development of commerce with Asia"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business", "Politics"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["foreign", "global", "international"],
                "verb + commerce": ["engage in", "regulate", "affect"],
                "preposition": ["commerce  between", "commerce  with"],
                "phrases": ["a chamber of commerce", "the world of commerce"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɒmɜːs/",
                "audio": "co/commerce/commerce__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːmɜːrs/",
                "audio": "co/commerce/commerce__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. originally in the sense of social interaction between people: from French, or from Latin commercium ‘trade, trading’, from com- ‘together’ + mercium (from merx, merc- ‘merchandise’)."
}