Etymology

mercantilist

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Today it means: Of, pertaining to, or believing in mercantilism. Full definition →

English mercantile ← French mercantile
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The story

  1. Frenchmercantile
  2. Englishmercantile
  3. English todaymercantilist

From mercantile + -ist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.