Meaning & use
Mercantile
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Relating to trade, commerce, or merchants.
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The port city grew wealthy through its mercantile trade with distant colonies.
He approached every negotiation with a shrewd, mercantile mindset.
A note on using this word
The word gave its name to 'mercantilism,' the economic theory that dominated European trade policy from the 16th to 18th centuries.
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