"mercantile" meaning in All languages combined

See mercantile on Wiktionary

Adjective [Anglais]

IPA: \ˈmɜː.kənˌtaɪl\ Audio: En-us-mercantile.ogg
  1. Commercial.
    Sense id: fr-mercantile-en-adj-sQaNrV7k Categories (other): Lexique en anglais du commerce Topics: commerce
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: mercantilism

Adjective [Français]

IPA: \mɛʁ.kɑ̃.til\ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-mercantile.wav Forms: mercantiles [plural, masculine, feminine]
  1. Qui concerne le commerce.
    Sense id: fr-mercantile-fr-adj-PEOf2FWb Categories (other): Exemples en français, Lexique en français du commerce Topics: commerce
  2. Qui cherche à tirer un gain d’argent unilatéral. Tags: pejorative
    Sense id: fr-mercantile-fr-adj-LfIV-k0A Categories (other): Exemples en français, Termes péjoratifs en français
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: mercantilisme, mercantiliste Related terms: mercantilisation Translations (Qui concerne le commerce): mercantile (Anglais), mercantil (Espagnol), mercantil (Galicien), mercantil (Occitan), меркантильный (Russe), obchodní (Tchèque)

Adjective [Italien]

  1. Mercantile.
    Sense id: fr-mercantile-it-adj-YUII1wx5 Categories (other): Lexique en italien du commerce, Wiktionnaire:Exemples manquants en italien Topics: commerce
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: mercantilista, mercantilismo

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-31 from the frwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.