MERCANTILISM as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
    Synonym(s) Hypernyms(s) mercantilism is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Hyponym(s) Attribute(s)
  2. Meaning
    • an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation’’s wealth by government regulation of all of the nation’’s commercial interests
    Synonym(s) Hypernyms(s) mercantilism is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower