Mercantile agency Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an organization that provides businesses with credit ratings of other firms
    commercial agency.
    • Dun & Bradstreet is the largest mercantile agency in the United States

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Definitions
  1. an agency for procuring information of the standing and credit of merchants in different parts of the country, for the use of dealers who sell to them.

Webster 1913