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Example sentences for: mercantile

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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.
42 Another major textile company, Milliken, has a degree of common ownership with a retail business, Mercantile, although these arrangements remain unusual.
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.
Hamilton championed the mercantile and the urban, what would one day be the New York City we know.
The WP produces a particularly interesting pro-calm nugget: It has the chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange saying that within a couple of hours after the Big Board closed, nearly 80 percent of his market's traders had paid off what they owed from the day's trades.