adjective. Of or relating to merchants or trade.

adjective. Of or relating to mercantilism.

Of or pertaining to merchants, or the traffic carried on by merchants; having to do with trade or commerce; trading; commercial.

Characteristic of the business of merchants; in accord with business principles.

Synonyms Mercantile, Commercial. Commercial is the broader term, including the other. Mercantile applies only to the actual purchase and sale of goods, according to one's line of business; the mercantile class in a community comprises all such as are actually in the business of buying and selling. Commercial covers the whole theory and practice of commerce, home or foreign : as, the British are a commercial people; commercial usages, honor, law. The word is applicable wherever the more varied activities of commerce are concerned.

adjective. Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.

adjective. an agency for procuring information of the standing and credit of merchants in different parts of the country, for the use of dealers who sell to them.

adjective. the persons and vessels employed in commerce, taken collectively.

adjective. the notes or acceptances given by merchants for goods bought, or received on consignment; drafts on merchants for goods sold or consigned.

adjective. Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit

adjective. relating to or characteristic of trade or traders

adjective. profit oriented

adjective. of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism