merchandise

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Goods bought and sold in business; commercial wares.
2. v. To buy and sell (goods).
3. v. To promote the sale of, as by advertising or display: merchandised a new product.
4. v. To buy and sell goods; trade commercially.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In general, any movable object of trade or traffic; that which is passed from hand to hand by purchase and sale: specifically, the objects of commerce; a commercial commodity or commercial commodities in general; the staple of a mercantile business; commodities, goods, or wares bought and sold for gain. Real property, ships, money, stocks, and bonds are not merchandise, nor are notes or other mere representatives or measures of actual commodities or values.
2. n. Purchase and sale; trade; bargain; traffic; dealing, or advantage from dealing.

Wiktionary

1. n. uncountable Commodities offered for sale.
2. n. countable A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
3. v. intransitive, archaic To engage in trade.
4. v. intransitive To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
5. v. transitive, archaic To engage in the trade of.
6. v. transitive To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
7. v. transitive To promote as if for sale.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.
2. n. The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
3. v. To trade; to carry on commerce.
4. v. To make merchandise of; to buy and sell.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. engage in the trade of
2. n. commodities offered for sale