Etymology

mercatorism

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Today it means: The tendency of transnational commerce to operate outside any system of national laws, making use, instead, of a system of arbitration. Full definition →

Latin mercator
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  1. Latin · borrowed frommercator“merchant, trader”
  2. English todaymercatorism

From Latin mercator (“merchant, trader”) + -ism.

Words from the same roots

Latinmercator all →

MercatorMercator projection

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