Mercantile – Engaged in trade

Engaged in trade. Relating to the business of buying and selling.

Merchants on islands (mercantile) love buying and selling.

Examples of mercantile in a sentence

Downtown used to be very mercantile, with merchants selling their products.

The mercantile tribe members trade their lumber in exchange for protection.

Many of the best-known mercantile firms and banks of the Far East have branches in Bangkok.