evasion vs mercantilism

mercantilism vs evasion

evasion and mercantilism both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
evasion	Yes	No	No	No
mercantilism	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mercantilism is a hypernym of evasion; that is, mercantilism is a word with a broader meaning than evasion:

evasion: the deliberate act of failing to pay money
mercantilism: transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

Other hypernyms of evasion include commerce, commercialism.

evasion (noun)	mercantilism (noun)
the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver	transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do	an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests
the deliberate act of failing to pay money
a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

Difference between evasion and mercantilism

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