merchandise
n. uncountablen. goods or products that are bought and sold in a business. You usually see this word used for items in a shop or things sold to fans of a movie or band.
n. goods that are bought and sold in business; the collective stock of a merchant or retailer. Often used in modern contexts to refer to branded products related to a specific media property or public figure.
The shop sells official merchandise for the local football team.
The store manager decided to discount all seasonal merchandise to make room for the new winter collection.
While the core business focuses on software development, a significant portion of their annual revenue now derives from high-margin merchandise sold directly to their global community of users.
From Middle English marchaundise (“commerce, trading; buying; business transaction, deal; merchandise, goods, wares; possessions”), from Anglo-Norman marchaundise and Old French marcheandise (modern French marchandise), from Old French marcheant (“seller, vendor”) (ultimately from Latin mercātus (“buying and selling, trade, traffic; market; marketplace”), possibly originally Etruscan) + -ise (suffix forming feminine nouns, often denoting a quality or state). The English word is analysable as merchant + -ise.
From Middle English marchaundisen (“to engage in commerce, traffic”), from marchaundise (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).
Uncountable when referring to goods in general; the verb form is pronounced with a /z/ sound, while the noun ends in an /s/ sound.
The shop sells many merchandises.The shop sells a lot of merchandise.Merchandise is uncountable and does not have a plural form when referring to goods.