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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



... Catholics, indeed, affirmed that he himself was the son of a demon who lodged in his father's house under the semblance of a merchant. Wierus says that a bishop preached to that effect in 1565, and gravely ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell
... secret. Seffy, the successful wooer, was thawing out again. The diamond was not a diamond at all—the Hebrew who sold it to Seffy had confessed as much. But he also swore that if it were kept in perfect polish no one but a diamond merchant could tell the difference. Therefore, there being no diamond merchant anywhere near, and the jewel being always immaculate, Seffy presented it as a diamond and had risen perceptibly in the ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) • Various
... been a merchant, and his wife came from a rich family so that he did not care to burden her with the hardships of primitive pioneer life. But she was a sensible woman, who was not afraid to work, and since she loved her husband dearly, she insisted that she would come and share with him the ...
— Three Young Pioneers - A Story of the Early Settlement of Our Country • John Theodore Mueller
... this reign,[****] containing a preamble, by which it appears, that the company of merchant adventurers in London had, by their own authority, debarred all the other merchants of the kingdom from trading to the great marts in the Low Countries, unless each trader previously paid them the sum of near seventy pounds. It is surprising that such a by-law (if it deserve the ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. - From Henry VII. to Mary • David Hume
... sea, and had become so thoroughly accustomed to walking on an unstable foundation that he felt quite uncomfortable on solid ground, and never remained more than a few months at a time on shore. He was a man of good education and gentlemanly manners, and had worked his way up in the merchant service step by step until he obtained the command ...
— The World of Ice • Robert Michael Ballantyne


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