Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

crédito mercantil

English translation:

commercial credit / mercantile credit

Added to glossary by Renato Pereira
Oct 12, 2010 11:31
13 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

crédito mercantil

Portuguese to English Bus/Financial Business/Commerce (general)
Hello everybody!

I am translating a document on "Administração Financeira".

Among the expressions present in this document, there is "crédito mercantil", for which I have found 3 options:

1) commercial credit
2) mercantile credit
3) goodwill

How would you translate that expression? Is there any difference between these three options?

Thank you!
Change log

Oct 18, 2010 04:18: Renato Pereira Created KOG entry

Proposed translations

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commercial credit

A suggestion.

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Note added at 5 days (2010-10-18 07:14:56 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks for your comments. Now I know what "goodwill" credit is too!
Peer comment(s):

agree Nicola Gardner
1 min
Thanks, Nicola
agree Douglas Bissell : Mercantile or commercial: http://chestofbooks.com/finance/banking/Money-And-Banking-Ho...
1 hr
Thanks, Douglas
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Hello Marian! Thank you for your contribution. I do enjoy seeing more and more different translators get involved in this discussions here. Both "commercial credit" and "mercantile credit" are possible. I realized that after posting this question. I'm also thankful to Douglas for his confirmation. I chose your answer since it was the one I ended up using for my translation. Too bad nobody commented on "goodwill", which is a different kind of "crédito mercantil", something to do with the reputation and value a company has before clients."
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Mercantile credit

Mercantile Credit, Monetary Policy, and Size of Firms
by AH Meltzer - 1960 - Cited by 151 - Related articles
of mercantile credit in the nineteenth century was the need of merchants to obtain short-term ... data suggest the importance of mercantile credit as means ...
www.jstor.org/stable/192569
Peer comment(s):

agree Douglas Bissell : Mercantile or commercial: http://chestofbooks.com/finance/banking/Money-And-Banking-Ho...
1 hr
Thanks!
agree Nick Taylor
5 hrs
Thanks!
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