MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mercantile establishment mean? 

• MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENT (noun)
  The noun MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENT has 1 sense:

1. a place of business for retailing goods

  Familiarity information: MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A place of business for retailing goods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

mercantile establishment; outlet; retail store; sales outlet

Hypernyms ("mercantile establishment" is a kind of...):

business establishment; place of business (an establishment (a factory or an assembly plant or retail store or warehouse etc.) where business is conducted, goods are made or stored or processed or where services are rendered)

Meronyms (parts of "mercantile establishment"):

merchandise; product; ware (commodities offered for sale)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mercantile establishment"):

country store; general store; trading post (a retail store serving a sparsely populated region; usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise)

department store; emporium (a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain)

discount house; discount store; discounter; wholesale house (a sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price)

market; market place; marketplace; mart (an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up)

center; mall; plaza; shopping center; shopping centre; shopping mall (mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace)

shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)

strip mall (a mercantile establishment consisting of a row of various stores and business and restaurants along a road or busy street; usually opening on a parking lot)