MERCANTILISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mercantilism mean? 

• MERCANTILISM (noun)
  The noun MERCANTILISM has 2 senses:

1. an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests

2. transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

  Familiarity information: MERCANTILISM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MERCANTILISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

mercantile system; mercantilism

Hypernyms ("mercantilism" is a kind of...):

managed economy (a non-market economy in which government intervention is important in allocating goods and resources and determining prices)

Domain region:

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism

Hypernyms ("mercantilism" is a kind of...):

dealing; dealings; transaction (the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities))

Meronyms (parts of "mercantilism"):

shipping; transport; transportation (the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials)

Attribute:

noncommercial (not connected with or engaged in commercial enterprises)

commercial (connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises)

Domain member category:

shop (do one's shopping)

buy in; stock; stock up (amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use)

market (deal in a market)

arbitrage (practice arbitrage, as in the stock market)

market (engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of)

barter away (trade in in a bartering transaction)

pick up (buy casually or spontaneously)

trust ((chiefly archaic) extend credit to)

broker (act as a broker)

turn over (do business worth a certain amount of money)

transact (conduct business)

market (buy household supplies)

browse; shop (shop around; not necessarily buying)

comparison-shop (compare prices for a given item)

antique (shop for antiques)

smuggle (import or export without paying customs duties)

import (bring in from abroad)

export (sell or transfer abroad)

hock; pawn; soak (leave as a guarantee in return for money)

impulse-buy (buy on impulse without proper reflection)

franchise (grant a franchise to)

retail (be sold at the retail level)

trade (be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions)

merchandise; trade (engage in the trade of)

usance (the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange))

commercialise; commercialize; market (make commercial)

buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)

take (buy, select)

get (purchase)

clear (sell)

turn (get by buying and selling)

negociate (sell or discount)

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

sell short (sell securities or commodities or foreign currency that is not actually owned by the seller, who hopes to cover (buy back) the sold items at a lower price and thus to earn a profit)

remainder (sell cheaply as remainders)

resell (sell (something) again after having bought it)

deaccession (sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works)

fob off; foist off; palm off (sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive)

realise; realize (convert into cash; of goods and property)

auction; auction off; auctioneer (sell at an auction)

deal; sell; trade (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)

deal (sell)

retail (sell on the retail market)

wholesale (sell in large quantities)

liquidize; sell out; sell up (sell or get rid of all one's merchandise)

trade; trade in (turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase)

traffic (trade or deal a commodity)

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

trading (buying or selling securities or commodities)

trade (the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services)

e-commerce (commerce conducted electronically (as on the internet))

exchange; interchange (reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries))

initial offering; initial public offering; IPO (a corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public)

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

carriage trade (trade from upper-class customers)

importation; importing (the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country)

exportation; exporting (the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country)

marketing (the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service)

distribution (the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer)

marketing; merchandising; selling (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)

traffic (buying and selling; especially illicit trade)

defrayal; defrayment; payment (the act of paying money)

evasion; nonpayment (the deliberate act of failing to pay money)