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

For the ancient Phoenicians, from modern-day Lebanon, the trade in Tyrian purple helped build a mercantile empire that established new colonies across the Mediterranean, including at Carthage, near modern Tunis, under the mythical Queen Dido.

From Reuters

The elegance of his path-breaking example on screen opened the hearts, minds and wallets of the moviegoing public and tugged at the reluctant, mercantile conscience of the film industry.

From Los Angeles Times