1. an organization that provides businesses with credit ratings of other firms; - Example: "Dun & Bradstreet is the largest mercantile agency in the United States"; [syn: mercantile agency, commercial agency]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
commercial agency
n 1: an organization that provides businesses with credit
ratings of other firms; "Dun & Bradstreet is the largest
mercantile agency in the United States" [syn: mercantile
agency, commercial agency]