OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 10707

mercantile

/ˈmɜːkənˌtaɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mercantil
Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit.
No sign was over his door; in fact—as with old banks and mercantile houses—advertising in any shape was scorned, and it would have been felt as beneath his dignity to paint, for th…
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