mercantilism
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Noun
- An economic system (europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests
- Transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
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Words that sound like the term "mercantilism".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | materialism | 6 | 7 |
| 2 | monasticism | 5 | 1 |
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Words that are spelled similarly to the term "mercantilism".
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| 1 | mechanism | 4 | 28 |
| 2 | merchants | 2 | 22 |
| 3 | merchant | 2 | 20 |
| 4 | mechanisms | 4 | 18 |
| 5 | meantime | 2 | 12 |
| 6 | merchandise | 3 | 7 |
| 7 | materialism | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | romanticism | 5 | 2 |
| 9 | imperialism | 6 | 2 |
| 10 | commercialism | 5 | 1 |
| 11 | mercantilist | 4 | 0 |
| 12 | mercantil | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | mercantile's | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | mercantile | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | americanism | 6 | 0 |
| 16 | merchants' | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | merchant's | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | moralism | 4 | 0 |
| 19 | percentiles | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | merchantmen | 3 | 0 |
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Definitions: 2
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 2
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 0
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