What's the difference between merchant and peddler?

Merchant


Definition:

  • (n.) One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.
  • (n.) A trading vessel; a merchantman.
  • (n.) One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper.
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service.
  • (v. i.) To be a merchant; to trade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For example, the Bank of England was nationalised in 1946, but remained in effect the voice of merchant bankers in the City.
  • (2) A total of 2,208 male subjects, enrolled as merchant marine seamen at the Civitavecchia (Italy) harbor from 1936 to 1975 were followed up through 1989 in order to evaluate their mortality experience.
  • (3) Among them, tourists, servicemen and merchant seamen are the groups most at risk.
  • (4) He sold the first Tesco product – Tesco Tea – five years later when he bought a tea shipment from a merchant called TE Stockwell and combined their initials on the packaging.
  • (5) RAAF aircraft have been joined in the search by six merchant ships, with one Norwegian automobile carrier still in the area, and another on its way.
  • (6) Born Pauline Crispin in Liverpool, the younger daughter of an insurance company manager, she was educated at Merchant Taylor's Girls school at Great Crosby, Northampton High school, and Sutton High school.
  • (7) Keating was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, and educated at Merchant Taylors' school in Middlesex and Trinity College Dublin, where he read English and French.
  • (8) Eight months before the general election, the “shrink the offer” merchants are back in the ascendant.
  • (9) Command and control servers for Shylock, so named as its code contained quotes from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, were located and seized by international law enforcement bodies, including the FBI, the German Federal Police and Europol.
  • (10) Inhalation is clearly related to the development of lung cancer in (copper) smelting and arsenical pesticide manufacturing, and also in heavily exposed wine merchants who had an additional source of exposure by ingestion.
  • (11) Consider it a metaphor: faced with a choice between saving for the future of those who have given years and decades in service to their employers, or handing some money to those who may have taken a paper stake for the most fleeting of moments, big British business favours the fast-buck merchants, every time.
  • (12) The stylish, varnished wooden interior and whitewashed walls has a slightly Danish feel, but General Merchant’s brunch-y, all-day menu is inspired by Australian cafe culture, where good coffee and pan-global fusion plates are the norm.
  • (13) "The administration's proposals … will be harmful to our US merchant marine, harmful to our national defence sealift capability, harmful to our farmers and millers and bad for our economy," said chairman James L Henry.
  • (14) He thinks it's complicated – though in the case of Shylock , his reworking of the Merchant of Venice , he is prepared to be specific.
  • (15) As Jeffreys says: “Imhotep becomes himself an iconic figure, not only architect – and possibly not one at all in the technical sense – but an early power merchant.
  • (16) This week a Danish cargo vessel carrying tons of the world's deadliest chemical weapons will sail into an Italian port and carefully begin transferring its lethal cargo to an ageing US merchant ship .
  • (17) A block north of the waterfront on Merchant Road, workmen up ladders are carefully painting corinthian capitals with yellow limewash and adjusting teak window frames, putting the finishing touches to a restoration project that offers a different model for saving heritage structures, while training local builders in the process.
  • (18) Lawyer Tony Merchant deposited more than US$800,000 into an offshore trust.
  • (19) But the rise of Ukip looks to me to be legitimising a very different view, in which the average English person will be characterised as an avowed Eurosceptic, a fierce opponent of immigration, a hang-'em-and-flog-'em merchant, and a hater of government.
  • (20) James Agate (1877‑1947) started out as a Manchester cotton merchant, moved to London as a shopkeeper, then rose to prominence as the most brilliant theatre critic of his day.

Peddler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
  • (2) Anyone could imitate the twice-baked potatoes at the Peddler , or turn out a veal parmesan like the Villa Capri's, but there was no way a non-Chinese person could make moo shu pork , regardless of his or her training.
  • (3) Though a cultured man, who himself wrote poetry, Barnett Rosenberg took up work as a peddler, selling household goods such as shoelaces and buttons door to door in the West Country.
  • (4) "In the 15 years after he left the speakership, the speaker has been working as an influence peddler in Washington."
  • (5) Ukip is a party of con artists, myth peddlers, charlatans and professional shysters.
  • (6) Doctor Sleep by Stephen King Since Stephen King published The Shining in 1977, his literary reputation has risen from peddler of schlock-horror to master of smalltown America's fears and dreams, both real and supernatural.
  • (7) The public is an easy mark for the "health peddler" who lacks credentials but possesses effective motivational skills and speaks with conviction about unfounded promises and exaggerated outcomes.
  • (8) Christian convert from Hinduism; peddler of Muslim “no-go zone” nonsense.
  • (9) Peddler calls are a common sound, too, as they sell vegetables and household products door-to-door.
  • (10) A survey conducted by discount vouchers peddlers VoucherCodesPro has revealed that one in five people admit to stealing items at supermarket self-service checkouts , adding up to £1.6bn worth of items every year, so frustrated are they with the ineptitude of their surrogate machine slaves.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The peddlers of fear are playing a dangerous game’.
  • (12) Chris Turner A buzzy run on the Edinburgh Fringe was followed by a US recording deal for this young pun-peddler, comedy rapper and erstwhile BBC New Comedy award finalist.
  • (13) National bath-bomb peddlers Lush (to jog your memory: those handmade soap shops that give off such a pungent whiff that their exterior is usually blighted by at least one hyperventilating shopper using the outside wall as physical support) is in the news today because it has heroically stood up to Amazon as part of a legal battle over the latter's use of the word "lush" to market rival lines of cosmetics.
  • (14) Major Abarca, who is among those alleged to be responsible for the crisis, was a former peddler of hats turned jeweller who owned a commercial mall (built in a estate donated by the Mexican army).
  • (15) Mitt Romney attempted to revive his flagging presidential campaign with a frontal assault on Newt Gingrich's ethics at the Republican debate in Tampa, accusing him "working as an influence peddler" and repeatedly reminding voters he was sacked as party leader in Congress for unethical behaviour.
  • (16) But when these sleaze-peddlers try to make money with disgusting lies about his relationship with his child, you bet he's going to sue."
  • (17) Those powerbrokers often value loyalty over quality in the selecting of parliamentary candidates, their backroom influence disenfranchises most party members who – not surprisingly – leave, and this structure opens the real risk of corruption, because influence peddlers thrive best when power is concentrated in the hands of a few.
  • (18) Though the peddlers of memoirs and mid-market newspapers have scavenged every last tidbit from this affair, sensible historians admit knowing little about it.
  • (19) But I don't believe that they anticipated coming off quite that badly against a man they dismiss as a peddler of "dangerous fantasies".
  • (20) Sale of modern medicines by untrained peddlers, general merchants, and other drug sellers is common throughout the developing world.