🇬🇧 en ru 🇷🇺

mercantile adjective

  /-ˌtil/ , /ˈmɜːkənˌtaɪl/ , /ˈmɝ.kənˌtaɪl/
  • (economics) Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit.
 меркантильный

mercantilism noun

  • (historical, economics) The theory that a nation must always have a positive balance of trade, in the manner that a merchant would operate a shop. Typically this model presupposes protectionism.
 меркантилизм

mercantilely adverb

  /-ˌtil.(l)i/ , /ˈmɝ.kənˌtaɪ(l).li/
  • In a mercantile manner or context.
 мерканти́льно
Wiktionary Links