(a.) Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This financial mercantilism - which is foreign banks retreating to their home base - will, if we do nothing, lead to a new form of protectionism," he said.
(2) Jason Conibear, market analyst at forex specialists, Cambridge Mercantile, argues that Obama will be breathing a sigh of relief, even though US economic growth is slowing: American consumers are getting skittish again, but with the giant economy's output still creeping upwards, politicians and policymakers will find the perfect excuse to do nothing.
(3) The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has a wide variety of “weather derivatives” available for trade if you’re interested including “temperature ranges, snowfall amounts and frost”.
(4) Eurosceptic Bambi and his party refuse deeper collaboration with the EU on space, recoil before the overt mercantilism of the Americans and so think China offers a blank cheque book.
(5) Destined for a dusty shelf next to the Watney Cup, the Texaco Cup and the Anglo-Scottish Cup, the little-known Mercantile Credit Football Festival was part of the Football League's spectacular centenary celebrations in 1988.
(6) NOTTINGHAM FOREST'S FINEST HOUR (APART FROM THOSE EUROPEAN CUPS AND LEAGUE TITLES, OBVIOUSLY) "What on earth was the Mercantile Credit Football Festival?"
(7) This is where the word comes from – they were the first réfugiés , giving England a bold shot of craft skill, mercantile know-how and financial expertise.
(8) To underscore the project's connection to the city's carbon hungry past, the hearings were held in Manchester Town Hall, Alfred Waterhouse's neo-gothic cathedral to manufacturing and mercantilism.
(9) They impoverish not just the poor but the mercantile and professional classes, denying them contact with the outside world.
(10) Inheriting White Star from his father, his first act as owner had been to sell it to the Wall Street behemoth J Pierpont Morgan, who included it in the portfolio of his interests known as International Mercantile Marine.
(11) However, the companies need it for mercantilism, to sell and get profit.
(12) Major shareholders Toscafund, Schroders and River & Mercantile, who together control 43.9% of Findel, have already agreed to vote against Sports Direct.
(13) This stage of the nineties, framed in financial scarcity, mercantilization of knowledge and social and economic changes in general taking place in the country, favors an utilitarian-profitable-selective-competitive-privatized research, with emphasis on the technological.
(14) "This type of intervention strengthens the belief… that the aim of the ecological movement is simply to maintain the status quo of the world economy," one columnist wrote in the Monitor Mercantil newspaper last week, adding that "Cameron's colonialist message" was an attempt to "exterminate the future of Brazil".
(15) Whether it is trade wars , a significant trade contest, whether it is mercantilism more generally, whether is a much more combative militaristic approach – who knows what he will actually do?
(16) The repressive shoguns had, from 1630, cut off Japan from the outside world; enforcing feudal structures, they also brought peace after a long period of civil war, and the population was released to pursue cultivated activities, which quickly became an obsession of the mercantile middle classes.
(17) Cities may have mercantile exchange as one of their reasons for being, but once people are lured to a place for work, they need more than offices, gyms and strip clubs to really live.
(18) The mercantile spirit of Kashgar lives on however, at the livestock section, shunted a few miles south of town.
(19) Updated at 2.54pm BST 2.44pm BST Tres Knippa , a trader on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange , says investors simply aren't worried about the government shutdown.
(20) If Miliband were as radical as his aide, Jon Cruddas, wants him to be , he would set aside Adonis's worthy mercantilism and ponder how genuinely to re-energise the old industrial cities.
Trading
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trade
(a.) Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company.
(a.) Frequented by traders.
(a.) Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician.
Example Sentences:
(1) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(2) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
(3) Over the past 20 years the rag-and-bone trade has had a makeover.
(4) The choice is partly technical – what kind of trading arrangement do we want with the EU?
(5) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(6) Analysts have trimmed their profit forecasts for this year with trading profits of £3.3bn pencilled in compared with £3.5bn in 2012-13.
(7) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
(8) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(9) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(10) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
(11) Minimum investment is £200, and the share prospectus states that interest of 6% will be paid from year three of trading.
(12) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
(13) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
(14) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
(15) The Macassans traded iron, tobacco, cloth and gin for access to Yolngu waters.
(16) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
(17) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
(18) According to research by Tiga, the trade body representing the UK games industry, women make up just 12% of the development workforce in Britain – a percentage reflected by similar surveys in the US and Canada.
(19) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(20) All have territorial disputes with Beijing over the South China Sea , a route for about $4.5tn (£3.4tn) in trade that the US is concerned China wants to fully control.