commercial agency

1. 1.

   an organization that provides businesses with credit ratings of other firms

   “Dun & Bradstreet is the largest mercantile agency in the United States”

   Synonymsmercantile agency

   Broaderagency

Questions about commercial agency

What does commercial agency mean?

commercial agency means "an organization that provides businesses with credit ratings of other firms".

What is another word for commercial agency?

Close synonyms include mercantile agency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is commercial agency a common word?

commercial agency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.