mercantile paper

noun

1. commercial paper.

mercantile paper

noun

1. another name for commercial paper

Example Sentences

A Dutch mercantile paper lately published a list of twenty steamers in course of construction for the Japanese.

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He even affected them in the company of those who were peculiarly elegant, and was secretly suspicious of the mercantile paper of all men who were unusually neat in their appearance, and who spoke their native language correctly.

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A dandy bank-clerk, one day, having expressed a doubt as to the sufficiency of his name to a piece of mercantile paper, Astor asked him how much he thought he was worth.

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Assignats were abundant, but good mercantile paper, a notorious coward, had made itself wings and fled, and specie was creeping into strong boxes like a startled rabbit into its hole.

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