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Commerce, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the

Commerce, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E. – Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic’s World Book, 1906

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