What's the difference between bootlegger and trader?

Bootlegger


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There were bootleggers after prohibition ended, for a little while, but not for long.
  • (2) • The Irish version suffered another blow in the 1920s when bootleggers labelled their illicit drink "Irish whiskey" • US soldiers who arrived in Britain and Northern Ireland when America entered the second world war in 1941 sampled the delights of Scotch and were cut off from consuming Irish whiskey as the Republic was neutral • The formerly state-owned Cooley Distillery near the border with Northern Ireland was soldin 2012 to American whiskey giant Jim Beam.
  • (3) "S&P complaining about the US budget deficit is like Al Capone dumping on bootleggers," said Charles Dumas of Lombard Street Research.
  • (4) Gumbel and Costa are Jewish, and Welby himself was the child of a broken home whose father, it emerged long after his death, turned out to have been a German Jew named Weiler who took the name of Gavin Welby when he was working as a bootlegger in New York.
  • (5) Some had inlays featuring band photos photocopied on to brightly coloured card, and many were made by a notorious bootlegger called Big Al.
  • (6) Nor did it seem to strike anyone as much of a contradiction that Orkney's principal bootlegger was also an elder of the kirk; indeed, he would cycle there every Sunday and distribute contraceptives to the young men of the congregation on the way home.
  • (7) Bootleggers This “dude food” diner – elaborate burger menu; skulls and shipping pallets stuck on the walls; confrontational slogans scrawled in the gents – doubles as a rather good bar.
  • (8) The bootlegger would go up the front of the gigs with a WM-D6C machine – a 1980s Sony recording Walkman model, with Dolby C noise reduction – and put his head in the stacks, Macdonald recalls.
  • (9) Prince has abandoned plans to sue 22 alleged bootleggers of his material.
  • (10) The Gulf cartel was founded by an old whiskey bootlegger from the 1930s, Juan Nepomuceno Guerra and his nephew, Juan García Ábrego, who became the first drug trafficker to make the FBI’s 10 most wanted list.
  • (11) "I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn't far wrong."
  • (12) Then we basically spent the next four years in our room at boarding school making two-man League of Gentlemen knock-offs like Chinese bootleggers.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest He's the ultimate rarities artist Taylor: "I've given a lot of money to bootleggers over the years.
  • (14) But now everybody is a bootlegger and not so cute as before and there are people out there just stealing stuff and saying, ‘Don’t try to force me to pay,’ and that act of thieving will become a habit, and that’s bad for everybody.” He said musicians who had previously suffered at the hands of record labels and executives who had taken all the profits were now being penalised by the digitally empowered public.

Trader


Definition:

  • (n.) One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader.
  • (n.) A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) RBS had received complaints from two clients, in October 2010 and January 2012, about the activities of forex traders and in November 2011 one of its own traders raised concerns, which were not heeded.
  • (2) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
  • (3) Many adults' work schedules limited their ability to take their children to health sites (52.2% were farmers and 18.9% were traders).
  • (4) Traders are predicting that the Bank of England will raise interest rates rather earlier than its forecast date of 2016.... 9.45am GMT UK industrial production beats forecasts Photograph: ONS Better news in the UK -- Britain's industrial production grew faster than expected in September, driven by manufacturing sector.
  • (5) The oil price tumbled by as much as $3.25 a barrel on Tuesday after the world's biggest commodity trader called the top of the market for crude and a range of other commodities – at least for the time being.
  • (6) In 1998, when Jeffrey Archer's son, James, and his trader friends, known as the Flaming Ferraris, took a stretch limo to their bank's Christmas party, the Sunday Telegraph could barely contain itself.
  • (7) The City is rife with gambling addicts whose habits contribute to a risk-prone culture of the sort which helped Kweku Adoboli lose UBS £1.5bn, according to one London trader.
  • (8) Key, a trader turned politician who combines a CEO-style leadership approach with a down-to-earth, sometimes goofy personal image, continues to rank by far the highest in preferred prime minister polling.
  • (9) Senior Yen Trader: hey ...you think we be able to convince [Primary Submitter] to change the libor today?
  • (10) "25 at 4 [2,500 shares at 400p each], print that quickly," shouts one trader.
  • (11) A series of electronic exchanges linked RBS traders to those at other banks, particularly Swiss bank UBS, who submitted rates to the Libor panel.
  • (12) The UK has exported more than 5m cars since 2010, marking the best start to a decade, said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
  • (13) And just having clear procedures made it easier for poor, informal traders to trade."
  • (14) But traders today dismiss that collapse, blaming it on early errors in the experimental phase of the market.
  • (15) The boss of a successful US hedge fund has quit the industry with an extraordinary farewell letter dismissing his rivals as over-privileged "idiots" and thanking "stupid" traders for making him rich.
  • (16) Skilled manual laborers, businessmen, and traders were more likely to be infected with HIV-2 than farmers, unskilled laborers, and while collar men (p.05).
  • (17) They beheaded him with an axe and cut him into pieces," said Moomin Abdallah Ahmed, a Muslim trader in the Lakouanga suburb.
  • (18) Select traders were given the “Barclays leads”, the newspaper said, and from December 2012 to September 2013 a number of victims were persuaded to buy rare earth metals that did not exist, it is claimed.
  • (19) He asked "why [would a] good trader, risk manager be willing to work with us".
  • (20) He pointed to a group of traders and asked the company's chairman what they did.

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