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mercantile adjective [ ˈməːk(ə)ntʌɪl ]

• relating to trade or commerce; commercial.
• "the shift of wealth to the mercantile classes"
Similar: commercial, trade, trading, business, merchant, sales, profit-oriented, money-oriented, profit-making, for-profit, mercenary, capitalistic, worldly, greedy, materialistic,
Opposite: idealistic, unworldly,
Origin: mid 17th century: from French, from Italian, from mercante ‘merchant’.


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