ironmongery
Noun: 1. The merchandise sold in a hardware store: "Ironmongery" refers to the goods and items typically sold by an ironmonger (a dealer in hardware and metal goods). This includes tools, implements, nails, screws, locks, hinges, and other small metal items used for building, repairing, or decorating. 2. The trade or business of an ironmonger: It can also refer to the business of selling such goods.
"Ironmongery" is a formal or British English term for what is often called "hardware" in general contexts. It is used to describe the collective inventory of a shop selling metal goods.
- The old-fashioned shop was filled with every kind of ironmongery, from hammers and saws to buckets and doorknobs.
- He went to the ironmongery department to buy some new hinges for the garden gate.
- The family has been in the ironmongery business for three generations.
- Architectural ironmongery: A specialized term in architecture and construction referring to the metal fittings used in buildings, such as door handles, window catches, locks, and hinges. This usage emphasizes the functional and decorative metal components.
- The architect specified high-quality architectural ironmongery for all the doors in the new office building.
- Ironmonger (noun): A person or shop that sells hardware and metal goods.
- We need to ask the ironmonger if they have a replacement part.
- Hardware
- Metal goods
- Ironware (less common)
The primary meaning relates to goods for sale. The secondary meaning relates to the trade itself. There is no significant idiomatic or phrasal verb use for this specific noun.
- the merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop