mercantile
adjective/ˈmɜrkənˌtil/
Frequency rank: #10,510 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
relating to trade or commerce; of or characteristic of merchants.
Example sentence
The city grew wealthy during the era of mercantile trade routes that connected Europe to Asia.
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