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Definition of Mercantiles

Mercantile
Mercantile Mer"can*tile (?; 277), a. [F. mercantile, It. mercantile, fr. L. mercans, -antis, p. pr. 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. --Arbuthnot. 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. Syn: Mercantile, Commercial. Usage: Commercial is the wider term, being sometimes used to embrace mercantile. In their stricter use, commercial relates to the shipping, freighting, forwarding, and other business connected with the commerce of a country (whether external or internal), that is, the exchange of commodities; while mercantile applies to the sale of merchandise and goods when brought to market. As the two employments are to some extent intermingled, the two words are often interchanged.

Meaning of Mercantiles from wikipedia

- The Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company was an Australian insurance and financial services company. It was established in 1878, and lasted until 2001,...
- Mercantile Bank may refer to: Mercantile Bank (Bangladesh), a bank founded in Dhaka in 1999 Mercantile Bank (South Africa), a bank founded in Sandown,...
- Mercantile Library may refer to: New York Mercantile Library (1820), former name of the Center for Fiction, New York City, New York Mercantile Library...
- historians proved quick to adopt it. Originally the standard English term was "mercantile system". The word "mercantilism" came into English from German in the...
- The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) (often called "the Chicago Merc", or "the Merc") is a global derivatives marketplace based in Chicago and located...
- Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited (TMB) is an Indian bank headquartered at Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu. TMB was founded in 1921 as the Nadar Bank, but changed...
- Mercantile Bancorporation was the largest bank holding company in Missouri when it was acquired by Firstar Corporation in 1999. The Mercantile Bank of...
- Mercantile Ski- og Fotballklubb is a Norwegian football club from Oslo, Norway. Founded on 3 June 1903, the club currently plays in 7. divisjon, the eighth...
- Mercantile agencies, or commercial agencies, are organizations that are designed to collect, record, and distribute to regular clients information relative...
- 34°47′21.41″E / 32.0729500°N 34.7892806°E / 32.0729500; 34.7892806 Mercantile Discount Bank (Hebrew: בנק מרכנתיל דיסקונט בע"מ) is a major commercial...