mercantile

Etymology

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

adj

  1. (economics) Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit.
  2. (economics) Of or relating to mercantilism.

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