Usually means: Economic theory emphasizing national wealth.
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  1. mercantilism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mercantilism: Merriam-Webster
  3. mercantilism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mercantilism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mercantilism: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mercantilism: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mercantilism, mercantilism: Wordnik
  8. mercantilism: Wiktionary
  9. mercantilism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mercantilism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mercantilism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mercantilism: Dictionary.com
  13. Mercantilism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  15. mercantilism: FreeDictionary.org
  16. mercantilism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. mercantilism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mercantilism: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. Mercantilism: Investopedia
  3. mercantilism: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mercantilism: Encyclopedia

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  1. mercantilism: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mercantilism)

noun:  (historical, economics) The theory that a nation must always have a positive balance of trade, in the manner that a merchant would operate a shop. Typically this model presupposes protectionism.
noun:  (economics) The theory that holds that the prosperity of a nation depends upon its supply of capital, and that the global volume of trade is unchangeable.

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