mercantile

英 ['mɜːkəntaɪl] 美 ['mɜːrkəntaɪl]

• adj. 贸易的；商业的

英英释义

Adjective:

1. of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism;

   "mercantile theories"
   "mercantile system"
   

2. profit oriented;

   "a commercial book"
   "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"
   "a mercenary enterprise"
   "a moneymaking business"
   

3. relating to or characteristic of trade or traders;

   "the mercantile North was forging ahead"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. San Francisco and New York are important mercantile ports in America.
   旧金山和纽约是美国重要的贸易港口。
2. I've never seen you since at that mercantile evening last year.
   自从去年的商务晚会以后我就没有再碰见你了。
3. The mercantile exchange led the push into electronic trading in the early 1990’s.
   在20世纪90年代前期，商业交易所就推动电子交易。

经典引文

• The Expedition of the Argonauts..was partly mercantile, partly military.

  出自： J. Arbuthnot

• A bill That was not drawn with true mercantile skill.

  出自： G. Crabbe

• Putting aside..the..currency altogether, and confining ourselves to the more mercantile part of the question.

  出自： G. J. Goschen

• The new mercantile society..followed hard on the decay of feudalism.

  出自： G. Steiner

词汇搭配

• mercantile marine (AmE
• mercantile price 商业价格
• mercantile business 商业企业
• mercantile agency 商业征信所
• mercantile law 商法
• Chicago Mercantile Exchange 芝加哥商品交易所...
• mercantile accounting 商业会计
• mercantile credit 商业信用
• mercantile bill 商业票据
• mercantile firm 商店
• mercantile paper (=commerci...
• mercantile doctrine 重商主义
• mercantile theory 商业原理
• mercantile capital 商人资本,商业资本...
• mercantile system 重商主义

近反义词

【近义词】

• commercial 商业的
• merchant 商人
• trade 贸易
• trading 买卖
• business 商业
• mercenary 唯利是图的
• moneymaking 孜孜求利的