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mercantile

UK/ˈmɜːkənˌtaɪl//ˈmɝ.kənˌtaɪl/

mercantile adjective: concerned with the exchange of goods for profit.

Adjective

mercantile (not comparable)

  1. 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 the benefit of strangers, the name of an establishment the trade of which came solely by connection based on personal...1872, [Thomas Hardy], “II. A Meeting of the Choir”, in Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, part II, page 139
  2. Of or relating to mercantilism.

mercantile meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

mercantile in Tamil

வாணிகம் சார்ந்த

mercantile in Urdu

mercantile, commercial, business
تجارتی tijāratī

mercantile in Bengali

বাণিজ্যিক, বণিক সংক্রান্ত, লাভজনক

mercantile in Malayalam

വ്യാപരവിഷയകമായ, വാണിജ്യവിഷയകമായ, കച്ചവടക്കാർക്കുളള
More languagesFewer languages
mercantile in Kannada
ಹರದರ, ಹರದಿನ, ವಾಣಿಜ್ಯದ

Forms of mercantile

alternative formmerchantile

Origin of mercantile

Borrowed from French mercantile, from Italian mercantile, from mercante (“merchant”), from Latin mercāns (“trading”).

Words formed from mercantile

Questions about mercantile

What does mercantile mean?
Mercantile means concerned with the exchange of goods for profit.
What is mercantile in Tamil?
Mercantile in Tamil is வாணிகம் சார்ந்த. See Mercantile meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mercantile?
Mercantile is an adjective.
How do you pronounce mercantile?
Mercantile is pronounced /ˈmɜːkənˌtaɪl/ (UK).

Words near mercantile in the dictionary

  1. Mercalli intensities
  2. Mercalli intensity
  3. mercallite
  4. mercalls
  5. mercals
  6. mercantile
  7. mercantilely
  8. mercantilism
  9. mercantilisms
  10. mercantilist
  11. mercantilistic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mercantile (page history and authors); mercantile (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); تجارتی (Urdu) (page history and authors); mercantile (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mercantile (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mercantile (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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