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mercantile   (TTS Sound)

The adj mercantile has 3 senses

• mercantile -- (of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism; "mercantile theories"; "mercantile system")


• mercantile, mercenary, moneymaking -- (profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business")


• mercantile -- (relating to or characteristic of trade or traders; "the mercantile North was forging ahead"- Van Wyck Brooks)