Definitions for mercantile

mercantile mer·can·tile

Spelling: [mur-kuh n-teel, -tahyl, -til]
IPA: /ˈmɜr kənˌtil, -ˌtaɪl, -tɪl/

Mercantile is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 996 anagrams from letters in mercantile (aceeilmnrt).

Definitions for mercantile

adjective

  1. of or relating to merchants or trade; commercial.
  2. engaged in trade or commerce:
  3. Economics. of or relating to the mercantile system.

Origin of mercantile

1635-45; French Italian: pertaining to merchants, equivalent to mercant(e) merchant (Latin mercant-, stem of mercāns buyer, noun use of present participle of mercārī to buy) + -ile Examples for mercantile

The Black Sea is, of course, open to the mercantile vessels of all nations.

To his mercantile friend in Wood Street he never applied in vain.

He pushed his mercantile business for years, amassing an immense fortune.

When Mr. Weddell commenced his mercantile life it was no child's play.

He dreamed in terms of battleships and of a mercantile marine.

Our mercantile marine is at the last gasp (warlike digression).

And I must laugh to see my neighbours making a to-do about a mercantile bargain.

Moreover, the use of it is gradually extending in the mercantile marine.

My friend Tom has worked on a farm, while I have been engaged in mercantile pursuits.

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Word Value for mercantile
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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