WordNet
mercantile establishment
n. a place of business for retailing goods [syn: retail store, sales outlet, outlet]
Usage examples of "mercantile establishment".
It is not reassuring to see, on a closer glance, that most of the houses are deserted and falling to ruin, and that the broken-steepled church now harbours the one slovenly mercantile establishment of the hamlet.
He met an old acquaintance from Illinois in a mercantile establishment.