| commercial bribery | bribery of a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into a transaction |
North American Free Trade Agreement
NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
commercial enterprise
business enterprise
business | the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects, computers are now widely used in business |
business activity
commercial activity | activity undertaken as part of a commercial enterprise |
| commercial art | art used for commercial purposes (as in advertising) |
agreement
correspondence | compatibility of observations, there was no agreement between theory and measurement, the results of two tests were in correspondence |
agreement
arrangement | the thing arranged or agreed to, they made arrangements to meet in Chicago |
commercial document
commercial instrument | a document of or relating to commerce |
purchase contract
purchase agreement | a contract stating the terms of a purchase |
| fair-trade agreement | an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer |
articles of agreement
shipping articles | a contract between crew and captain of a ship |
labor contract
labor agreement
collective agreement | contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions |
employment contract
employment agreement | contract between employer and employee |
| distribution agreement | a contract governing the marketing of an item of merchandise |
| licensing agreement | contract giving someone the legal right to use a patent or trademark |
merger agreement
acquisition agreement | contract governing the merger of two or more companies |
sale
sales agreement | an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer), the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office |
| agreement understanding | the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises, they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business, there was an understanding between management and the workers |
| working agreement | an informal agreement to work together |
| gentlemen's agreement | a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding |
| written agreement | a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties |
| commercial treaty | a treaty governing commerce between two or more nations |
| agreement | the verbal act of agreeing |
| severance agreement | an agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave |
commercial
commercial message | a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television |
| commercial enterprise | an enterprise connected with commerce |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GATT | a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas |
mercantile agency
commercial agency | an organization that provides businesses with credit ratings of other firms, Dun & Bradstreet is the largest mercantile agency in the United States |
commercial bank
full service bank | a financial institution that accepts demand deposits and makes loans and provides other services for the public |
commercial finance company
commercial credit company | a finance company that makes loans to manufacturers and wholesalers |
mercantile law
commercial law
law merchant | the body of rules applied to commercial transactions, derived from the practices of traders rather than from jurisprudence |
| commercial artist | an illustrator who is supported by advertising |
traveling salesman
travelling salesman
commercial traveler
commercial traveller
roadman
bagman | a salesman who travels to call on customers |
business loan
commercial loan | a bank loan granted for the use of a business |
| commercial credit | credit granted by a bank to a business concern for commercial purposes |
| commercial letter of credit | a letter of credit given to a business concern for commercial purposes |
| commercial paper | an unsecured and unregistered short-term obligation issued by an institutional borrower to investors who have temporarily idle cash |
| agreement concord | the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations |
| number agreement | agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify) |
| person agreement | agreement in person between pronouns and verbs |
| case agreement | agreement in grammatical case between words in the same construction |
| gender agreement | agreement in grammatical gender between words in the same construction |
| agreement accord | harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters, the two parties were in agreement |
| commercial | connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises, commercial trucker, commercial TV, commercial diamonds |
commercial
commercial-grade | of the kind or quality used in commerce, average or inferior, commercial grade of beef, commercial oxalic acid |
agreed
in agreement(p) | united by being of the same opinion, agreed in their distrust of authority |
| commercial | of or relating to commercialism, a commercial attache, commercial paper, commercial law |