Definition of Mercentile
Mer"can*tile (?; 277), a. [F.
mercantile, It. mercantile, fr. L. mercans, -
antis, p. pr. of mercari to traffic. See Merchant.]
Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants;
having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities;
commercial.
The expedition of the Argonauts was partly
mercantile, partly military.
Arbuthnot.
Mercantile agency, 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. -
- Mercantile marine, the persons and vessels
employed in commerce, taken collectively. -- Mercantile
paper, the notes or acceptances given by merchants for
goods bought, or received on consignment; drafts on merchants for
goods sold or consigned. McElrath.
Syn. -- Mercantile, Commercial.
Commercial is the wider term, being sometimes used to embrace
mercantile. In their stricter use, commercial relates
to the shipping, freighting, forwarding, and other business connected
with the commerce of a country (whether external or internal),
that is, the exchange of commodities; while mercantile applies
to the sale of merchandise and goods when brought to market. As the
two employments are to some extent intermingled, the two words are
often interchanged.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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