Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mercantilism"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mercantilism
n 1: an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's
wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's
commercial interests [syn: {mercantile system}]
2: transactions having the objective of supplying commodities
[syn: {commerce}, {commercialism}]
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