mercantile

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Connected with trade and the buying and selling of goods for profit.

   The port grew rich from centuries of mercantile activity.

2. 2
   adj

   Focused on making money.

   Critics accused the gallery of taking a purely mercantile view of art.

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

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