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Definition of Mercantile establishment
1. Noun. A place of business for retailing goods.
Specialized synonyms: Country Store, General Store, Trading Post, Department Store, Emporium, Discount House, Discount Store, Discounter, Wholesale House, Market, Market Place, Marketplace, Mart, Center, Mall, Plaza, Shopping Center, Shopping Centre, Shopping Mall, Shop, Store, Strip Mall
Terms within: Merchandise, Product, Ware
Generic synonyms: Business Establishment, Place Of Business
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mercantile Establishment
Literary usage of Mercantile establishment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report (1902)
"The owner, manager or agent of a mercantile establishment employing children,
... If a mercantile establishment has not provided wash-rooms and ..."
2. Bulletin of the Department of Labor by United States Dept. of Labor (1905)
"No child under the ape of sixteen years shall be employed, permitted or suffered
to work in or in connection with any mercantile establishment, ..."
3. Special bulletin by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1915)
"If a mercantile establishment has not provided wash-rooms and water- closets,
... Every room in a mercantile establishment and the floor, walls, ceilings, ..."
4. The Science of Accounts: A Presentation of the Underlying Principles of by Harry Clark Bentley (1911)
"... ANNUAL REPORT FOR mercantile establishment §268. Constituent Parts of Report.
The following group of statements constitute a complete annual report of a ..."
5. Memoirs of His Own Time: Including the Revolution, the Empire, and the by Mathieu Dumas, Christian Léon Dumas (1839)
"... which wag interrupted by the news of the catastrophe. ing a little mercantile
establishment to secure an asylum. Th~us the society united at Hackney was ..."
6. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1915)
"There shall be provided for every mercantile establishment a sufficient number
of suitable and convenient water-closets. All water-closets shall be ..."