negoce

See also: négoce

English

Etymology

From French négoce. See negotiate.

Noun

negoce (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) business; occupation or enterprise
   • 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 ?

References

• “negoce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• congee