"commercialist" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From commercial + -ist.",
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          "ref": "1848, A Summary Practical Elucidation of National Economy, page 16:",
          "text": "To the more liberal education of commercialists, when compared with that of agriculturists, may justly be ascribed the commercial ascendancy over the agricultural community.",
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          "ref": "1917, Ernest Guy Stevens, Civilized Commercialism, page 149:",
          "text": "Original as this system will seem to some, it will be but a codification of the best present practices of our best commercialists.",
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        "Someone who engages in commerce."
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        {
          "ref": "1988 October 7, Harold Henderson, “Saved Form the Sandsuckers”, in Chicago Reader:",
          "text": "Both sides--the \"commercialists\" and the \"conservationists\"--blitzed with outside endorsements, tours, advertisements, fliers, newspaper articles, and radio and TV publicity.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Someone who supports commercial activity."
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          "text": "Original as this system will seem to some, it will be but a codification of the best present practices of our best commercialists.",
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        "Someone who engages in commerce."
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