(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.
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.