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MERCANTILE AGENCY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does mercantile agency mean?

• MERCANTILE AGENCY (noun)
The noun MERCANTILE AGENCY has 1 sense:

1. an organization that provides businesses with credit ratings of other firms

Familiarity information: MERCANTILE AGENCY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MERCANTILE AGENCY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An organization that provides businesses with credit ratings of other firms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

commercial agency; mercantile agency

Context example:

Dun & Bradstreet is the largest mercantile agency in the United States

Hypernyms ("mercantile agency" is a kind of...):

agency (a business that serves other businesses)

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