mercantile 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”

   Synonymscommercial agency

   Broaderagency

Questions about mercantile agency

What does mercantile agency mean?

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

What is another word for mercantile agency?

Close synonyms include commercial 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 mercantile agency a common word?

mercantile 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.