Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.

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

Relating to business, commercial activity.

of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism; "mercantile theories"; "mercantile system"

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