mercantile establishment

Questions about mercantile establishment

What does mercantile establishment mean?

mercantile establishment means "a place of business for retailing goods".

What is another word for mercantile establishment?

Close synonyms include retail store, sales outlet, outlet. 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 establishment a common word?

mercantile establishment 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.