mercantile agency

noun

1. commercial agency.

mercantile agency

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of mercantile agency¹

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

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

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After all, the Mercantile Agency had stated but the truth, that is, mainly.

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Of these sources, perhaps the best known and most widely used by manufacturers and jobbers, is the mercantile agency.

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

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