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MERCANTILE AGENCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mercantile agency mean?
• MERCANTILE AGENCY (noun)
The noun MERCANTILE AGENCY has 1 sense:
1. an organization that provides businesses with credit ratings of other firms
Familiarity information: MERCANTILE AGENCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An organization that provides businesses with credit ratings of other firms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
commercial agency; mercantile agency
Context example:
Dun & Bradstreet is the largest mercantile agency in the United States
Hypernyms ("mercantile agency" is a kind of...):
agency (a business or organization that provides a particular service, especially the mediation of transactions between two parties)
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