(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.
Wholesale
Definition:
(n.) Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail.
(a.) Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price.
(a.) Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The retail and wholesale divisions powered the improved profits.
(2) Analysis by theenergyshop.com found bills would have been cut by around £140 had the wholesale cuts had been passed on in full.
(3) A quarter of all cocaine consumed in Western Europe is trafficked through West Africa, according to UNOCD, for a local wholesale value of $1.8bn and a retail value of 10 times that in Europe.
(4) Engie, the owner of Rugeley coal-fired station in Staffordshire, which made the most recent closure announcement earlier this month, blamed low wholesale power prices as much as carbon taxes for its decision .
(5) Matches on the NDCD tape could be found for 80% of the items in the shelf stock sample and 69.5% of the items in the tape supplied by the wholesaler.
(6) However, given the upsurge in demand Comag is working with wholesalers Smith News and Menzies Distribution to get more copies into shops.
(7) As the Democrats have often found in the US, when they have tried to construct rainbow coalitions out of class- and colour-defined blocs of the population, groups that can be counted on wholesale in theory often splinter into individuals that it may not be possible to count on at all.
(8) However to see changes of this magnitude proposed which are wholesale changes to terms and conditions and not the basis upon which I accepted the job, then I do feel worse off and also vulnerable.
(9) Although there are some circumstances in which it is sensible to privatise, there are many good reasons why wholesale privatisation should be shunned .
(10) There is no broad-based constituency for wholesale civil-military reform in Pakistan, let alone at a time when terrorist attacks occur at a steady rate of more than 150 a month and Kayani has so visibly pushed back against American demands.
(11) Npower blamed its planned rises on increases in wholesale gas and electricity costs and the cost of delivering government policies, such as smart metering and subsidies for renewable energy.
(12) But I was the one who was prepared to walk away.” Davey defended the cost of the deal, which guarantees the French operator EDF almost three times the current wholesale energy price.
(13) The Brotherhood's Libyan incarnation won only 10% of the vote in last year's congressional elections, but gained support with its campaign to mandate wholesale purges of Gaddafi-era officials.
(14) But British Gas has warned of further bill increases, claiming in May that wholesale gas prices were about 15% higher than in 2011.
(15) But for smart mid-life women and families, a wholesale re-framing of work and innovation is what's needed.
(16) It reveals that Beijing believes the economic and political situation to be worsening and that elements on the North’s ruling Korean Workers’ Party that have been urging more wholesale economic reform (known loosely in Beijing as the Chrysanthemum Group) are distinctly on the back foot, if not now almost wholly purged.
(17) Public anger has been intensified by accusations that the Big Six - British Gas-owner Centrica, EDF, Npower, SSE, E.on and Scottish Power – tend to raise bills in quickly when wholesale gas prices go up, but fail to cut them so much when the international market falls.
(18) HSBC's analysts said: "The levy may end up undershooting [targets] if banks can adjust their balance sheets away from short-term wholesale funding."
(19) That subscription lets you take books out for free from the Kindle Owners Lending Library ( some of which Amazon pays full wholesale price for ) and, in the US, watch some of the new TV series Amazon has produced, also for free (I don't need to explain how the company loses money on that).
(20) It seems that a 21st-century version of Glass-Steagall, the core building block in the wholesale reconstruction of the US financial system in the wake of the Depression, was code for doing the exact opposite.