Mercantile /(?; 277)/
Mer·can·tile
Mercantile
a.
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Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.
The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile, partly military.
Phrases & Compounds
- Mercantile agency
- an agency for procuring information of the standing and credit of merchants in different parts of the country, for the use of dealers who sell to them.
- Mercantile marine
- the persons and vessels employed in commerce, taken collectively.
- Mercantile paper
- the notes or acceptances given by merchants for goods bought, or received on consignment; drafts on merchants for goods sold or consigned.