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Dictionary definition for: Mercantile

1. (a) of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism; "mercantile theories" "mercantile system"

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

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

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