[mass noun]belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism 营利主义;商业主义 ■(chiefly historical)the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism (主史)重商主义(一种经济学理论,认为贸易产生财富且受顺差积累刺激,政府应采取保护主义促进之)