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mercantile agency

American

noun

commercial agency.

mercantile agency British

noun

an enterprise that collects and supplies information about the financial credit standing of individuals and enterprises

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Etymology

Origin of mercantile agency

First recorded in 1855–60

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mercantile agency

His landlady had got the news promptly from a boarder who paid in part by acting as a sort of mercantile agency for her in watching her very uncertain boarders.

From The Fortune Hunter by Phillips, David Graham

Instead of a restrictive tendency a mercantile agency promotes the expansion of credit and yet permits of proper conservatism.

From Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) by Eaton, Seymour

Just then a clerk came in and handed him a slip of paper, which I recognized as a special report from the mercantile agency.

From A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" by Maher, William H.

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