Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation allows you to configure synonyms for catalog search. Synonyms enable a catalog search to return an expanded list of items based on related search terms. For example, if notebook is configured as a synonym for laptop and laptop is entered as a search term, the search results return items identified as notebooks as well as laptops.
By default, Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation does not provide synonyms for search terms. However, you can configure synonyms for each of the locales your catalog search supports. For example, if your catalog search supports the US-English and French locales, you can configure US-English and French synonyms.
To define synonyms for a locale: