mercantile

• “I shall never feel assured,” the Emperor wrote to his Marshal, “until Hamburg can be looked on as a stronghold provisioned for several months and prepared in every way for a long defence.”—The ruin of commercial interests was nought to him; and when Savary ventured to hint at the discontent caused in French mercantile circles by these steps, he received a sharp rebuke The cackling of the Paris bankers matters very little to me. —  The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
• Europe went from what might be called a mercantile period, where it was just beginning to gather in the fruits of the rest of the world, to a capitalist economy, capped off by the industrial revolution and the enclosures of rural land. —  Dissident Voice
• Manufacturing, mercantile, and banking companies have all tended to combine in large corporations, partly for greater economy, partly for an increase of profits through manipulating reorganization of stock companies, and partly for centralization of control. —  Society Its Origin and Development
• Coincidently, therefore, with the movements of free trade at home, the renunciation of what was known as the mercantile system and the accompanying grants of constitutional freedom to the colonies, a movement for the reorganization of imperial defence was set on foot. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• Companies,--mercantile companies,--would be glad to have him as a director, paying him a guinea a day, or perhaps more, for his hour's attendance. —  Can You Forgive Her?

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