Main entry: mercantile
Definition: relating to or characteristic of trade or traders
Usage: the mercantile North was forging ahead- Van Wyck Brooks
Main entry: mercantile, mercenary, moneymaking
Definition: profit oriented
Usage: a commercial book; preached a mercantile and militant patriotism- John Buchan; a mercenary enterprise; a moneymaking business
Main entry: mercantile
Definition: of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism
Usage: mercantile theories; mercantile system