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Synonyms mercenary, moneymaking


preached a mercantile and militant patriotism.
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the mercantile North was forging ahead.
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mercantile theories.
mercantile system.

Examples of mercantile

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The city's mercantile class has maintained medieval guilds for nearly 800 years.
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Scrip was a way of financing his mercantile without requiring operating capital.
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The local mercantile community began acquiring impressive mercantile structures.
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Lex mercatoria precepts have been reaffirmed in new international mercantile law.
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I was admiring uniforms at the mercantile and he was talking about the thread.
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A little of that mercantile past can still be seen at the city's many markets.
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In 1817, Burnet moved to Natchitoches, Louisiana and set up a mercantile business.
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Melville was a ragged, voluble, romantic New Yorker from brasher mercantile stock.
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It's true for feudal economies, mercantile economies and capitalist economies.
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More examples
  • Of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism; "mercantile theories"; "mercantile system"
  • Profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business"
  • Relating to or characteristic of trade or traders; "the mercantile North was forging ahead"- Van Wyck Brooks
  • Mercantilism is an economic theory, thought to be a form of economic nationalism, that holds that the prosperity of a nation is dependent upon its supply of capital, and that the global volume of international trade is "unchangeable". ...
  • The two-masted schooner Mercantile is a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
  • Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit
  • Relating to trade or commerce; commercial; having to do with the business of buying and selling; relating to merchants.