mercantilism
noun [ U ] uk/ˈmɜː.kən.tɪ.lɪ.zəm/ us/ˈmɝː.kən.tiː.lɪ.zəm/
重商主义
an economic theory developed in the 16th to 18th centuries that says that a government should control the economy and that a nation should increase its wealth by selling more than it buys from other nations