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What does mercantile mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word mercantile? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (economics) Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit.
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Like his father, his political career was hampered by his adherence to fair trade and his mercantile Birmingham roots.
By mercantile usage, a bank has a lien over commercial paper deposited by the customer in the ordinary course of banking business.
He accepts the idea that he is to be the expiator for the damage done by mercantile capitalism.
The town's mercantile district featured several boarded up storefronts and a coffee shop hidden behind a dozen muddy pick-up trucks.
In the old Fort area of Bombay, where the British once had their mercantile offices, is a stately stone building called Bombay House.
Siberian woolly mammoths made their way over the Bering land bridge to the New World long before mercantile ships made the journey.

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