[f. as prec. + -IST.] One professionally engaged in commerce; an adherent of commercialism.
1807. Southey, Espriella’s Lett. (1814), II. 91. Heaven forbid that the clamour of philosophizing commercialists should prevail!
1845. Stocqueler, Handbk. Brit. India (1854), 365. Many difficulties which would have prostrated the energies of other than English commercialists.
