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Noun: mercantile system
  1. An economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests
    - mercantilism

Derived forms: mercantile systems

Type of: managed economy

Encyclopedia: Mercantile system

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