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mercantile

/mur-kuhn-teel, -tahyl, -til/US // ˈmɜr kənˌtil, -ˌtaɪl, -tɪl //UK // (ˈmɜːkənˌtaɪl) //

商贸,商行,商人,商业

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to merchants or trade; commercial.
    • : engaged in trade or commerce: a mercantile nation.
    • : Economics. of or relating to the mercantile system.

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Examples

  • Copyright renewed 1969 by August Mencken and Mercantile Safe Deposit Trust Co.

  • The gulf between mercantile hubs and the polities in which they are lodged is not new.

  • J. Crew Mercantile, which as of late has only become a name trademarked by the company, could be the next big thing.

  • Statements rendered by mercantile or collection agencies to inquirers for business purposes are clearly privileged.

  • With no mercantile marine of their own to guard, they had a free field for attack in the abundant shipping of their foes.

  • He had been connected with the mercantile marine of New York from an early age.

  • Above, in the lower lofts, every conceivable human oddity was assembled in a sort of mercantile crazy quilt.

  • She thought it was some mercantile speculation which led me from home, and, as you may believe, I did not undeceive her.