commerce, n.m., commerce, trade, trading, traffic; intercourse, communication, correspondence, acquaintance, communion, conversation; a game at cards. — des colonies, — avec les colonies; colonial trade. Affaires de —; mercantile affairs. Femme de —; tradeswoman. Fond de —; business, stock. Être dans le —; to be in business, in trade. — en gros; wholesale trade. — en détail; retail trade. Il fait un gros —; he drives a roaring trade. Chambre de —; chamber of commerce. — de galanterie; intrigue. Lier — avec quelqu’un; to establish a correspondence with anyone. Liez — avec lui; get acquainted with him. Être d’un — sur; to be a person to be depended upon.
commercer, v.n., to trade, to drive a trade, to traffic in.
commercial, -e, adj., commercial.
commercialement, adv., commercially.
commère, n.f., godmother; gossip; friend, body. Cet homme est une vraie —; that man is a regular gossip. C’est une fameuse —; (fam.) she is a bold, cunning woman, not easily discouraged. Tout se fait par compère et par —; all is done by favor.
commérer, v.n., to gossip, to tittle-tattle.
commettage, n.m., (nav.) laying of ropes and cables.
commettant, n.m., constituent; employer; principal; (jur.) warrantor. Corps de —s; constituents, constituency.
commettre, v.a., to commit, to perpetrate; to appoint, to delegate, to constitute, to commission, to empower; to commit to any one’s charge, to intrust, to trust with, to confide; to expose; to embroil; to set by the ears, to make mischief between; (nav.) to lay.
se commettre, v.r., to commit oneself; to expose oneself, to trust oneself.