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English
Etymology
From merchandize + -ing.
Noun
merchandizing (usually uncountable, plural merchandizings)
- Alternative spelling of merchandising
1625, Francis , “Of Usurie. XLI.”, in The Essayes Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. Newly Written.">…], 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 240: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.
1769, William Blackstone, “Of Offences against God and Religion”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book IV (Of Public Wrongs), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 63: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.
1868, Robert Browning, “I. The Ring and the Book.”, in The Ring and the Book. In Four Volumes.">…], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 47, lines 898–903: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.
1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXVII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section V, page 318: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.
2009 February 27, Steven Heller, “Noel Martin, inventive catalog designer, dies at 86”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 February 2022: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.
Verb
merchandizing
- present participle and gerund of merchandize