mercantile agency
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of mercantile agency
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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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
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.
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
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