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merchandisable |
merchandise |
merchandiser |
merchandising |
merchandry |
merchant
| merchant bank
| merchant marine
| merchant ship
| merchant vessels
| merchant-venturer
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun merchant has 1 sense
- merchant(n = noun.person) merchandiser - a businessperson engaged in retail trade; Array has particulars: baker, book seller, bookdealer, butcher, meatman, clothier, haberdasher, grain merchant, grocer, hatmaker, hatter, milliner, modiste, jeweler, jeweller, poulterer, poultryman, retail merchant, retailer, rug merchant, salt merchant, salter, schlockmeister, shlockmeister, marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor, market keeper, shopkeeper, storekeeper, tradesman, stationer, stationery seller, bargainer, dealer, monger, trader, merchant-venturer, venturer, vintner, wine merchant, charles henry harrod, harrod, charles digby harrod, harrod
is a kind of bourgeois, businessperson
CIDE DICTIONARY
merchant, n. [OE. marchant, OF. marcheant, F. marchand, fr. LL. mercatans, -antis, p. pr. of mercatare to negotiate, L. mercari to traffic, fr. merx, mercis, wares. See Market, Merit, and cf. Commerce.].
- One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader. [1913 Webster]"Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad." [1913 Webster]
- A trading vessel; a merchantman. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper. [1913 Webster]
merchant, a.
Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service. [1913 Webster]
merchant, v. i.
To be a merchant; to trade. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
merchant, n.
1 a wholesale trader, esp. with foreign countries.
2 esp. US & Sc. a retail trader.
3 colloq. usu. derog. a person showing a partiality for a specified activity or practice (speed merchant).
1 a wholesale trader, esp. with foreign countries.
2 esp. US & Sc. a retail trader.
3 colloq. usu. derog. a person showing a partiality for a specified activity or practice (speed merchant).
Idiom
merchant bank esp. Brit. a bank dealing in commercial loans and finance. merchant banker a member of a merchant bank. merchant marine US = merchant navy. merchant navy a nation's commercial shipping. merchant prince a wealthy merchant. merchant ship = MERCHANTMAN.
Etymology
ME f. OF marchand, marchant ult. f. L mercari trade f. merx mercis merchandise
DEVIL DICTIONARY
merchant
n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.THESAURUS
merchant
agent, baron, broker, business, businessman, caterer, chandler, commercial, commissariat, commissary, dealer, distributor, donor, drummer, forwarder, furnisher, hawker, huckster, importer, industrial, industrialist, jobber, magnate, manciple, marketer, mercantile, merchandiser, merchant prince, middleman, mogul, monger, patron, provider, provisioner, purveyor, quartermaster, regrater, retail, retail dealer, retail merchant, retailer, seller, shopkeeper, steward, stock clerk, storekeeper, supplier, sutler, trade, trader, tradesman, tradeswoman, trading, trafficker, tycoon, vendor, victualer, vivandier, wholesale, wholesalerROGET THESAURUS
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Sale
N sale, vent, disposal, auction, roup, Dutch auction, outcry, vendue, custom, vendibility, vendibleness, seller, vender, vendor, merchant, auctioneer, under the hammer, on the market, for sale, salable, marketable, vendible, unsalable unpurchased, unbought, on one's hands, chose qui plait est a demi vendue.Merchant
N merchant, trader, dealer, monger, chandler, salesman, changer, regrater, shopkeeper, shopman, tradesman, tradespeople, tradesfolk, retailer, chapman, hawker, huckster, higgler, pedlar, colporteur, cadger, Autolycus, sutler, vivandiere, costerman, costermonger, tallyman, camelot, faker, vintner, money broker, money changer, money lender, cambist, usurer, moneyer, banker, jobber, broker, buyer, seller, bear, bull, concern, firm.
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