commerce vs distribution

distribution vs commerce

commerce and distribution both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
commerce	Yes	No	No	No
distribution	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, distribution is a hyponym of commerce; that is, distribution is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than commerce:

commerce: transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
distribution: the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer

Other hyponyms of commerce include trading, trade, e-commerce, exchange, interchange, initial offering, initial public offering, IPO, business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, carriage trade, importation, importing, exportation, exporting, marketing, marketing, merchandising, selling, traffic, defrayal, defrayment, payment, evasion, nonpayment.

commerce (noun)	distribution (noun)
transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)	the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.	the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
	the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
	(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

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