| mercantile | (adjective) of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of trade or traders | - |
| (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercenary, moneymaking |
| mercantilism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, commercialism |
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| (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 |
| mercaptopurine | (noun) a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia | Synonyms: Purinethol |
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| mercenariness | (noun) The state or condition of being motivated by private gain. | - |
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| mercenary | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, moneymaking |
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| (adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, freelance |
| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded |
| (noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own | Synonyms: soldier of fortune |
| mercer | (noun) a dealer in textiles (especially silks) | - |
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| mercerise | (verb) treat to strengthen and improve the luster | Synonyms: mercerize |
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| mercerised | (adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye | Synonyms: mercerized |
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| mercerize | (verb) treat to strengthen and improve the luster | Synonyms: mercerise |
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| mercerized | (adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye | Synonyms: mercerised |
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| merchandise | (noun) items for sale to the individual consumer | Synonyms: product, ware |
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| (noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandising |
| (verb) engage in the trade of | Synonyms: trade |
| merchandiser | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchant |
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| merchandising | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, selling |
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| (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: advertising, publicizing |
| (noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandise |
| merchant | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchandiser |
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| merchantability | (noun) the state of being fit for market; ready to be bought or sold | - |
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| merchantable | (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: marketable, sellable, vendable, vendible |
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| merchantman | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: bottom, freighter, merchant ship |
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| merciful | (adjective) showing or giving mercy | - |
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| (adjective) (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious | - |
| mercifully | (adverb) in a compassionate manner | - |
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| mercifulness | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: clemency, mercy |
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| (noun) a disposition to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: mercy |
| (noun) the feeling that motivates compassion | Synonyms: mercy |
| merciless | (adjective) having or showing no mercy | Synonyms: unmerciful |
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| mercilessly | (adverb) without pity; in a merciless manner | Synonyms: pitilessly, remorselessly, unmercifully |
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| mercilessness | (noun) inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving | Synonyms: unmercifulness |
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| (noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: cruelty, pitilessness, ruthlessness |
| mercurial | (adjective) relating to or containing or caused by mercury | - |
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| (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, fickle, quicksilver |
| mercuric | (adjective) of or containing mercury | Synonyms: mercurous |
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| mercurous | (adjective) of or containing mercury | Synonyms: mercuric |
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| mercury | (noun) temperature measured by a mercury thermometer | - |
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| (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, quicksilver |
| mercy | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: clemency, mercifulness |
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| (noun) alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed | - |
| (noun) a disposition to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: mercifulness |
| (noun) the feeling that motivates compassion | Synonyms: mercifulness |
| (noun) something for which to be thankful | - |