mercantile
mercantile
Definition
mer·can·tile (mʉr′kən tīl′, -til, -tēl′)
adjective
- of or characteristic of merchants or trade; commercial
- of mercantilism
Etymology: Fr < It < mercante, merchant < L mercans, prp. of mercari: see merchant
mercantile
Synonyms
mercantile
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- capitalism: The impersonal order of the counting house in the new mercantile capitalism exemplified a renewed concentration on abstract measurement.
- marine: They represented some of the finest ships of the mercantile marine.
- spirit: But now the mercantile spirit has shown its profound malevolence.
- city: By way of recompense, Philip helped him to subdue the Greek mercantile cities in his territory.
- class: In addition to these tribal heads members of the mercantile class were granted control over large estates to farm.
Modifying Another Word
- increasingly: During the Taurus phase, and after a slow start, increasingly mercantile, urban and imperialistic civilisations arose.
mercantile Quotes
Look at the Irish! Theyare the cleverest propagandists extant, and managed to persuade most people that they were a brave, generous, humorous, talented, warm- hearted race, cruelly yoked to a dull mercantile England, when,God knows, they were exactly the opposite.
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