commercialist

plural commercialists

1. Someone who engages in commerce.

   Original as this system will seem to some, it will be but a codification of the best present practices of our best commercialists.

   1917, Ernest Guy Stevens, Civilized Commercialism, page 149

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   To the more liberal education of commercialists, when compared with that of agriculturists, may justly be ascribed the commercial ascendancy over the agricultural community.

   1848, A Summary Practical Elucidation of National Economy, page 16

2. Someone who supports commercial activity.

   Both sides--the "commercialists" and the "conservationists"--blitzed with outside endorsements, tours, advertisements, fliers, newspaper articles, and radio and TV publicity.

   1988 October 7, Harold Henderson, “Saved Form the Sandsuckers”, in Chicago Reader