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Mercantile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or relating to merchants or trade.

adj. Of or relating to mercantilism.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of or pertaining to merchants, or the traffic carried on by merchants; having to do with trade or commerce; trading; commercial.

Characteristic of the business of merchants; in accord with business principles.

Synonyms Mercantile, Commercial. Commercial is the broader term, including the other. Mercantile applies only to the actual purchase and sale of goods, according to one's line of business; the mercantile class in a community comprises all such as are actually in the business of buying and selling. Commercial covers the whole theory and practice of commerce, home or foreign : as, the British are a commercial people; commercial usages, honor, law. The word is applicable wherever the more varied activities of commerce are concerned.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. relating to or characteristic of trade or traders

adj. profit oriented

adj. of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism

Word Usage

"Now, FHA insured about 30% of home purchases as good as 20% of refinanced mortgages in mercantile 2009."

Equivalent

commercial

Cross Reference

mercantile system mercantile law

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

commercial

Same Context

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