merchant
31merchant — / mɜ:tʃənt/ noun a businessperson who buys and sells, especially one who buys imported goods in bulk for retail sale ● a coal merchant ● a wine merchant …
32merchant — [13] Latin merx denoted ‘goods for sale’. From it was derived the verb mercārī ‘trade’ (whose past participle was the source of English market). Mercārī was adapted in Vulgar Latin to mercātāre, whose present participle mercātāns produced the Old …
33merchant — noun 1》 a person involved in wholesale trade. ↘chiefly N. Amer. a retail trader. 2》 informal a person who deals in something unpleasant. ↘derogatory a person with a liking for a particular activity: a speed merchant. adjective (of ships,… …
34merchant — A trader who buys goods for resale, acting as a principal and usually holding stocks. Typically a merchant sells goods in smaller lots than he buys and often exports goods or is involved in entrepôt trade …
35merchant — noun a tea merchant from Bombay Syn: trader, dealer, wholesaler, broker, agent, seller, buyer, buyer and seller, vendor, distributor, peddler, retailer, shopkeeper, storekeeper …
36merchant — n 1. trader, tradesman, salesman, traveling salesman, U.S. drummer, dealer, businessman; seller, wholesaler, jobber, Chiefly Brit. monger; vendor, chandler, sutler, packman, peddler, colporteur, Brit. chapman, hawker, huckster, Chiefly Brit.… …
37merchant — In most common usage, a retailer of merchandise. In a more accurate sense, one who buys and sells merchandise as an entrepreneur. See commission merchant …
38merchant — [13] Latin merx denoted ‘goods for sale’. From it was derived the verb mercārī ‘trade’ (whose past participle was the source of English market). Mercārī was adapted in Vulgar Latin to mercātāre, whose present participle mercātāns produced the Old …
39Merchant Shipping Act — (with its variations) is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to merchant shipping. List The Merchant Shipping Act 1786 The Merchant Shipping Act 1844 The Merchant Shipping Law Amendment Act 1853 (16 17 Vict c… …
40Merchant (surname) — Merchant is a family name shared by the following people: Anthony Merchant (born 1944), Canadian lawyer and politician Ali Merchant, actor Carolyn Merchant (born c.1936), U:S: ecofeminist philosopher and historian of science Hoshang Merchant… …
