mercantile
/ˈmɜːkəntaɪl/ adjective [before noun] formalDefinition
› COMMERCE relating to trade: Instead of mercantile competition with Europe and America, Chinese capitalists have been looking to the developing world for bigger opportunities. a mercantile economy/society/tax
(Definition of mercantile adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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