as in trader
a buyer and seller of goods for profit
free trade agreements that are favored by merchants on both sides of the border
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Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff/Square Square has a new way for merchants to take your money: a new handheld device.
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Boone Ashworth, Wired News, 13 May 2025
At that time, the economy in that city was flourishing, and merchants from all over the world came together to sell their goods.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 9 May 2025
During the 1985 Christmas season, a coal merchant in an Irish village makes a troubling discovery.
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—The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
Phoenicians gave the world its first alphabet and were formidable sea merchants and colonizers, establishing city-states throughout the central and western Mediterranean.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2025
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Boone Ashworth, Wired News, 13 May 2025
At that time, the economy in that city was flourishing, and merchants from all over the world came together to sell their goods.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 9 May 2025
During the 1985 Christmas season, a coal merchant in an Irish village makes a troubling discovery.
10.
—The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
Phoenicians gave the world its first alphabet and were formidable sea merchants and colonizers, establishing city-states throughout the central and western Mediterranean.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for merchant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for merchant
trader
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Typically shares will jump to or close to a buyout price if traders are confident a deal will go through as proposed.—
Brendan Coffey,
Sportico.com,
8 May 2025
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But that hasn't stopped traders from betting big on who the next cardinal could be.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 May 2025
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“Merchant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/merchant. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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