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Merchant   /mˈərtʃənt/   Listen
noun
Merchant  n.  
1.
One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader. "Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad."
2.
A trading vessel; a merchantman. (Obs.)
3.
One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper. (U. S. & Scot.)


verb
Merchant  v. i.  To be a merchant; to trade. (Obs.)


adjective
Merchant  adj.  Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service.
Merchant bar, Merchant iron or Merchant steel, certain common sizes of wrought iron and steel bars.
Merchant service or Merchant marine, the mercantile marine of a country.
Merchant ship, a ship employed in commerce.
Merchant tailor, a tailor who keeps and sells materials for the garments which he makes.





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"Merchant" Quotes from Famous Books



... ran at last, The rich Alderman Smith was dead. Then each knight and dame, and each merchant came, To hear his ...
— More Bywords • Charlotte M. Yonge
... was a commissioned officer in the War of 1812, and served with General Andrew Jackson at New Orleans. As merchant, supercargo, and master of the vessel, he was engaged for some years in the West India trade, in which he was fairly successful, until his death in March, 1819, while on a foreign voyage. In politics he was an ardent Democrat, ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume I. No. VI. June, 1884 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various
... his preface to the first volume of the General History of the Pyrates, Defoe argued that the unemployed seaman had no choice but to "steal or starve." When the pirate, Captain Bellamy, boards a merchant ship from Boston, he attacks the inequality of capitalist society, the ship owners, and most of all, ...
— Of Captain Mission • Daniel Defoe
... spent in paying of small sums, neither in the keeping of account of such; but he that buyeth counteth up, and doubtless when the day of reckoning arrives, each cometh and casteth the money he oweth into the merchant's ...
— Thomas Wingfold, Curate • George MacDonald
... speaking Willems' head appeared above the level of the floor, then his shoulders rose gradually and he stood at last before Almayer—a masquerading spectre of the once so very confidential clerk of the richest merchant in the islands. His jacket was soiled and torn; below the waist he was clothed in a worn-out and faded sarong. He flung off his hat, uncovering his long, tangled hair that stuck in wisps on his perspiring forehead and straggled over his eyes, which glittered deep down in the sockets like ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad


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