what does mercantilism mean?
MERCANTILISM as NOUN
- Meaning
- transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
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Hypernyms(s) mercantilism is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- 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
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Hypernyms(s) mercantilism is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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