Associations to the word «Mercantile»

Wiktionary

MERCANTILE, adjective. (economics) Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit

Dictionary definition

MERCANTILE, adjective. Of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism; "mercantile theories"; "mercantile system".
MERCANTILE, adjective. Profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business".
MERCANTILE, adjective. Relating to or characteristic of trade or traders; "the mercantile North was forging ahead"- Van Wyck Brooks.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin