"merchandising" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1616, Iohn Smith [i.e., John Smith], A Description of New England: […], London: […] Humfrey Lownes, for Robert Clerke; […], →OCLC, page 34:",
          "text": "May not the miſerable ruine of Conſtantinople, their impregnable vvalles, riches, and pleaſures laſt taken by the Turke (vvhich are but a bit, in compariſon of their novv mightines) remember vs, of the effects of priuate couetouſneſs? […] His [the Byzantine emperor's] pouertie vvhen the Turke beſeiged, the citizens (vvhoſe marchandizing thoughts vvere onely to get vvealth, little conceiuing the deſperate reſolution of a valiant expert enemy) left the Emp[eror] ſo long to his concluſions, hauing ſpent all he had to pay his young, ravv, diſcontented Souldiers; that ſodainly he, they, and their citie vvere all a prey to the deuouring Turke.",
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          "ref": "1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usurie. XLI.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 240:",
          "text": "The Diſcommodities of Vſury are: Firſt, that it makes fevver Merchants. For vvere it not, for this Lazie Trade of Vſury, Money vvould not lie ſtill, but vvould, in great Part, be Imployed vpon Merchandizing; VVhich is the Vena Porta of VVealth in a State.",
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          "text": "Profanation of the lord's day, or ſabbath-breaking, is a ninth offence againſt God and religion, puniſhed by the municipal lavvs of England. […] And therefore the lavvs of king Athelſtan forbad all merchandizing on the lord's day, under very ſevere penalties.",
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          "text": "[A] Ocadh, in the South of Arabia, there were yearly fairs, and there, when the merchandising was done, Poets sang for prizes:—the wild people gathered to hear that.",
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          "ref": "1868, Robert Browning, “I. The Ring and the Book.”, in The Ring and the Book. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 47, lines 898–903:",
          "text": "[T]he old Triton, at his fountain-sport, / Bernini's creature plated to the paps, / Puffs up steel sleet which breaks to diamond dust, / A spray of sparkles snorted from his conch, / High over the caritellas, out o' the way / O' the motley merchandizing multitude.",
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          "text": "Now, these strikers: Honest, they're not such bad people. Just foolish. They don't understand the complications of merchandizing and profit, the way we businessmen do, but sometimes I think they're about like the rest of us, and no more hogs for wages than we are for profits.",
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          "text": "With the ubiquitous branding and expert merchandizing of museums today, it is easy to forget that graphic design was once a low priority for them.",
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          "text": "The Diſcommodities of Vſury are: Firſt, that it makes fevver Merchants. For vvere it not, for this Lazie Trade of Vſury, Money vvould not lie ſtill, but vvould, in great Part, be Imployed vpon Merchandizing; VVhich is the Vena Porta of VVealth in a State.",
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          "text": "Profanation of the lord's day, or ſabbath-breaking, is a ninth offence againſt God and religion, puniſhed by the municipal lavvs of England. […] And therefore the lavvs of king Athelſtan forbad all merchandizing on the lord's day, under very ſevere penalties.",
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          "text": "[A] Ocadh, in the South of Arabia, there were yearly fairs, and there, when the merchandising was done, Poets sang for prizes:—the wild people gathered to hear that.",
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          "text": "[T]he old Triton, at his fountain-sport, / Bernini's creature plated to the paps, / Puffs up steel sleet which breaks to diamond dust, / A spray of sparkles snorted from his conch, / High over the caritellas, out o' the way / O' the motley merchandizing multitude.",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-merchandising.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-merchandising.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɝt͡ʃənˌdaɪzɪŋ/",
      "tags": [
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      ]
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    {
      "word": "merchandizing"
    }
  ],
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}