What's the difference between merchandise and wares?

Merchandise


Definition:

  • (n.) The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.
  • (n.) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
  • (v. i.) To trade; to carry on commerce.
  • (v. t.) To make merchandise of; to buy and sell.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We remain committed to sourcing merchandise that is produced responsibly by suppliers that adhere to Walmart's rigorous Standards for Suppliers code of conduct."
  • (2) "Prime-time dramas aren't usually properties that are licensed [for merchandising] with the exception of the family-orientated Doctor Who.
  • (3) Content in the app is a mixture of episode descriptions, quizzes, tweets, cast information and playable clips of every song on the soundtrack, with links to buy song downloads, TV episodes and merchandise – the latter through a partnership with e-commerce firm Delivery Agent.
  • (4) Aims include overtaking Tesco to become the market leader in general merchandise and leapfrogging Sainsbury's to become No 2 in food.
  • (5) On Tuesday Marks & Spencer is expected to blame the weather for a fall in clothes and general merchandise sales over the past three months.
  • (6) Might The Good Dinosaur be the new Cars – hugely popular with merchandise makers but Pixar’s least effective movie in terms of concept and realisation – or can Peter Sohn’s film about a 70-foot tall Apatosaurus who befriends a human boy transcend its slightly hackneyed storyline?
  • (7) Within the industry, however, the company is equally well known for the steps it takes to protect the performers that help it pull in an estimated $1bn (£674m) annually from ticket and merchandising sales.
  • (8) Where in July street vendors sold hats and T-shirts with slogans such as “Hillary for Prison” and “Life’s a bitch, don’t vote for one”, this week the merchandise says “Hard working town Cleveland”, “Land of champions”, “C*town don’t back down” and “I liked Cleveland before it was cool”.
  • (9) In the case of the London store, organisers promise a "limited run of exclusive merchandise" that could include T-shirts, CDs and limited-edition 7"s. Pop-up stores have also hosted surprise gigs by Third Man bands.
  • (10) The retailer is consulting with head office staff including those in buying, merchandising and marketing about the job cuts, which are part o Rowe’s attempts to reduce costs and simplify the business.
  • (11) West Ham United Accounts of WH Holding Ltd for the year to 31 May 2015 • Ownership David Sullivan 51.1%; David Gold 35.1%; CB Holding ehf 10% • Turnover 9th highest in League £121m , up from £115m in 2014 • Income Match income and football related £20m; Commercial £15m; Premier League & broadcasting £79m; Retail & merchandising £7m • Wage bill Joint 12th highest in League £73m , up from £64m in 2014 • Wages as proportion of turnover 60% • Profit before tax £3m , following £10m profit in 2014 • Net debt £67m • Interest payable £6m • Highest-paid director Unnamed, £646,000 (Karren Brady is the executive vice-chairman) State they are in: The figures for West Ham’s occupation of the £701m, 60,000-seat Olympic stadium , disclosed after dogged persistence by Freedom of Information campaigners supporting other clubs, have confirmed it as the greatest public money bonanza ever bestowed on a football club.
  • (12) When asked what advice she had given the younger actors who were newcomers to the Star Wars franchise she replied: “Don’t go through the crew like wildfire.” Another questioner asked what were the strangest Star Wars merchandising items they had seen, and Fisher said: “Shampoo bottle, because you can twist off your head” – before pointing out a Princess Leia strain of marijuana was available.
  • (13) He says they talk about "the love, life and losses of [Real Housewives Of Atlanta star] NeNe Leakes," and that they're "designing the merchandise for the next season of [equally tacky reality show] Bad Girls Club: Evian bottles replaced with leopard print covers to conceal the brand on TV.
  • (14) The challenge was launched by Middle-Earth Enterprises, a division of the LA-based Saul Zaentz Company, which controls worldwide merchandising rights to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
  • (15) Last year Bolland installed former head of food John Dixon to head of general merchandise, which covers clothing, and former boss Kate Bostock quit.
  • (16) BBC Worldwide has announced a "fundamental strategic review" of its children's programming and merchandising business, home to properties including Teletubbies and Tweenies, after the poor retail performance of some brands contributed to a £7.2m annual loss.
  • (17) She approached everything with Christmas-morning levels of excitement: the very fact that she was out in town, after dark, on a school night; the meal beforehand at Pizza Express, where – thrillingly – we saw people who were also going to see Jessie J and who waved at us; the unimaginable bounty of the merchandise stall; the crowd screaming; the fact that she had seen the support act, a briefly popular boyband called Lawson , on TV.
  • (18) He said: “While we recognise that the 2014-15 fiscal year financial results will reflect our absence from the Champions League, we signed the largest kit sponsorship deal in the history of sport in the first quarter and, with that concluded, we are excited to focus our efforts on the meaningful growth opportunities in sponsorship, digital media and retail and merchandising.” Woodward focused on social media and the club’s youth policy in the conference call arranged to discuss the results.
  • (19) The society has taken another step to protect the pandas' value to the zoo by trademarking their popular, anglicised names, Sunshine and Sweetie, to prevent pirate merchandising.
  • (20) Maen, who describes himself as a T-shirt and trouser merchandiser, said: “If I get fingerprinted we will go to Stockholm, if not Berlin.

Wares


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) See 4th Ware.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
  • (2) These folk spend in a day what most people earn in a year on hiring hotel suites and setting up temporary fashion-show rooms in the hysterical hope that their wares will attract the eye of that most important person in town that week: the celebrity stylist.
  • (3) Honey bee mitochondrial trehalase was significantly activated by Lubrol WX treatment (30.0-fold), by high pH treatment (20.8-fold), and by a treatment consisting of 10 passes through a French press (37.9-fold) but not by the other treatments tried (salt, proteases, Waring blender, and sonication), despite the fact that these treatments also disrupted the mitochondria significantly.
  • (4) The antimony in metallic kitchen ware was determined.
  • (5) However, the overall plate count average of the 48 samples was slightly higher with the Waring Blendor than with the Stomacher 400 homogenizer.
  • (6) In the midday sun, young women and girls around Accra’s Makola market take a break from walking the streets carrying their wares to seek solace under the shade of a tree, napping with their babies in their laps.
  • (7) In this study, the cost of using permanent ware and disposable ware in selected schools was compared.
  • (8) Waring distributions were shown to adequately characterize the data.
  • (9) The animals were sacrificed after 30 and 60 days and the evolution and development of the renal implants within the testis ware studied.
  • (10) Of three methods studied, brisk shaking of samples in dilution blanks by hand and homogenization by a stomacher were compared relative to their capacity to recover the endotoxins and viable bacteria; blending with a Waring blender was compared with these two methods only on the recovery of viable cells.
  • (11) With the help of a computerized soft-ware, one growth-index:EPR (End Point Ratio) is calculated, in comparison with a standard, for each antibacterial agent tested and expressed in three categories: SIR.
  • (12) We have determined the nucleotide sequence of Xenopus borealis 28S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) and have revised the sequence of Xenopus laevis 28S rDNA (Ware et al., Nucl.
  • (13) Health locus of control (HLC) dimensions that emerged from simultaneous factor analysis of both instruments were most consistent with a three-dimensional typology (i.e., Personal Control, Professional Control, and Chance) rather than the four-dimensional typology proposed by Lau (Lau, 1982; Lau & Ware, 1981).
  • (14) The Colworth Stomacher Model 400 homogenizer was compared with the Waring Blendor for preparing food homogenates to be examined for Clostridium perfringens.
  • (15) This paper presents the results of an environmental investigation in a plastic-ware industry using RF sealers.
  • (16) ✒ Speaking of pets, our friend Helena Ware was on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles recently and saw a particular gigantic billboard.
  • (17) Material and migration tests of food-contact plastic wares made of polystyrene were carried out.
  • (18) Expect lots of shimmery falsetto and subtle electronic pulses as Ware once more puts the beat into downbeat.
  • (19) Oxfam's director of UK poverty, Kate Wareing, said: "Removing benefits and leaving people with no income will result in extreme hardship for them and their families.
  • (20) Wedgwood's fondness for good, plain, utilitarian ware – hence his claim "We shall conquer the world" – has also helped in the past decade.