Mercantile
Mercantile (?; 277) , adjective
[French mercantile, Italian mercantile, from Latin mercans, -antis, present participle 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.
Collocations (3)
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