Definition of "merchandise" in English

noun

1. (uncountable) Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.

   • Good business depends on having good merchandise.

2. (uncountable) Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)

3. (countable, archaic) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.

4. (uncountable, archaic) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.

2. (intransitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.

   • He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.

3. (transitive, archaic) To engage in the trade of.

4. (transitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.

   • He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.

5. (transitive) To promote as if for sale.

   • The record companies don't get as good a return on merchandising artists under contract.