mercantile

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to or characteristic of trade or traders

   the mercantile North was forging ahead- Van Wyck Brooks

2. 2
   adj

   of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism

   mercantile theories

3. 3
   adj

   Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit.

   No sign was over his door; in fact—as with old banks and mercantile houses—advertising in any shape was scorned, and it would have been felt as beneath his dignity to paint, for the benefit of strangers, the name of an establishment the trade of which came solely by connection based on personal respect.

4. 4
   adj

   profit oriented

5. 5
   adj

   Of or relating to mercantilism.

Etymology

Borrowed from French mercantile, from Italian mercantile, from mercante (“merchant”), from Latin mercāns (“trading”).