mercantile

Example Sentences

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Just like Miami, the style emerged in the city at a time of economic flux and transformation, spurred by its modern, mercantile port-city energy.

From BBC

A long history of mercantile trade along the eastern shores of Africa left its mark on the DNA of ancient Swahili people.

From New York Times

Jennifer Paxton suggests it's more likely that Celtic culture spread to the British Isles as a kind of Iron Age "meme," by way of a Celtic-speaking mercantile elite along the Atlantic edge of Europe.

From Salon

You’re not just a passive eater, you are actually a very active participant in a social and mercantile exchange.

From Los Angeles Times

The century after 1485, when Henry VII took the crown from Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth, would see England break away from the church in Rome and grow into a mercantile powerhouse.

From New York Times