Example sentences for: mercantile

How can you use “mercantile” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Oil-futures traders may not look like sheep, but those were baaas I heard the last time I walked by the New York Mercantile Exchange, where the futures are swapped.

  • 42 Another major textile company, Milliken, has a degree of common ownership with a retail business, Mercantile, although these arrangements remain unusual.

  • Crafts were usually not allowed, since the craft guilds excluded Jews; but Jews were allowed to engage in banking (and related industries, such as pawnbroking), mercantile pursuits, and long-distance trading.

  • He wants the United States to adopt an "emergency tariff" of between 10 percent and 15 percent on imports to force other countries to abandon their mercantile trading strategies.

  • Product as a generic mercantile term for "marketable commodity" has been around for years, but it seems to have first acquired prominence as jargon--and specifically as a term with a somewhat off-putting aroma--in the recording industry during the 1960s.


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