negoce

See also: négoce

English

Etymology

From French négoce. See negotiate.

Noun

negoce (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) business; occupation
   • 1699, A Dissertation Upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Richard Bentley:

     He was part of that time a Publican , or Collecter of Taxes and Customs : Could not that perpetual negoce and converse with Dorians bring his mouth , by degrees , to speak a little broader ?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “negoce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• congee