mercantilism vs pick up

mercantilism is a noun but pick up is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mercantilism	Yes	No	No	No
pick up	No	No	Yes	No

mercantilism (noun)	pick up (noun)
transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests

mercantilism (verb)	pick up (verb)
	gain or regain energy
	improve significantly; go from bad to good
	lift out or reflect from a background
	get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
	eat by pecking at, like a bird
	take into custody
	take up by hand
	fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
	give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
	take and lift upward
	perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
	register (perceptual input)
	buy casually or spontaneously
	gather or collect
	get in addition, as an increase
	meet someone for sexual purposes