mercantile agency

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noun

commercial agency.

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Origin of mercantile agency

First recorded in 1855–60

Words nearby mercantile agency

merc, Merca, mercado, Mercalli scale, mercantile, mercantile agency, mercantile paper, mercantile system, mercantilism, mercaptan, mercaptide

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How to use mercantile agency in a sentence

Something like fluoride, which is too small for normal filters, yanks away that feeling of agency.
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Wisner continues to feel angry toward the agency because she believes she was misled.
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“Mostly people on a budget use it,” Franz Dobersberger, managing director of a Bangkok travel agency, told The Daily Beast.
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Larson, as usual, instills gravitas and agency in an otherwise underwritten character.
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Essentially, we are being left in a position where we are expected to just take agency promises at face value.
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Having thus enrolled himself as one of the Agency Indians, he had a claim on this the Agency doctor.
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Yet he succeeded in getting many to take the agency and these received orders and sent for the books.
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Indeed, in many cases a general agency requires the employment of many persons to execute the business.
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In many cases an agency is created for an indefinite period, and in these either party can terminate it whenever he desires.
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The death of either agent or principal terminates the agency except in cases of personal interest.
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British Dictionary definitions for mercantile agency

mercantile agency

noun

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

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