MERCANTILISM

• (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

  synonyms : commerce , commercialism

• (noun) an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests

  synonyms : mercantile system

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