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Mercantile vs Emporium - What's the difference?

mercantile | emporium |

As an adjective mercantile

is (economics) concerned with the exchange of goods for profit.

As a noun emporium is

a market place or trading centre, particularly of an ancient city.

mercantile

English

Alternative forms

* merchantile

Adjective

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  • (economics) Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit

    • emporium

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A market place or trading centre, particularly of an ancient city.
  • * 2007 , John Darwin, After Tamerlane , Penguin 2008, p. 28:
    • Only where churchmen congregated or rulers established their emporia —licensed depots for the long-distance trade in luxuries—did any vestiges of urban life survive.
  • A shop that offers a wide variety of goods, often used facetiously.
    • With a name like "The Wine and Spirits Emporium ", no wonder the prices are so high.
  • A department store.
  • (obsolete) The brain.

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