mercantile

Adjective

• relating to or characteristic of trade or traders
  • the mercantile North was forging ahead- Van Wyck Brooks
    

• profit oriented
  • a commercial book
    
  • preached a mercantile and militant patriotism- John Buchan
    
  • a mercenary enterprise
    
  • a moneymaking business
    

• of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism
  • mercantile theories
    
  • mercantile system
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  mercenary , moneymaking(a)