(business) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
Verbit
(dated) To carry on trade; to traffic.
(dated) To hold intercourse; to commune.
Esimerkit
Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.
Suppose we held our converse not in words, but in music; those who have a bad ear would find themselves cut off from all near commerce, and no better than foreigners in this big world.
Beware you commerce not with bankrupts. -B. Jonson.
Commercing with himself. -Tennyson.
Musicians ... taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven. -Prof. Wilson.