1. mercantile - Adjective
2. mercantile - Adjective Satellite
Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity. Thomas Malthus
Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity:... Adam Smith
The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America. Henry Morton Stanley
Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system. Adam Smith
The Mercantile System still had a certain artless Catholic candour and did not in the least conceal the immoral nature of trade. ... But when the economic Luther, Adam Smith, criticised past economics things had changed considerably. ... Protestant hypocrisy took the place of Catholic candour. Friedrich Engels
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. Lord Byron