What's the difference between trader and trafficker?

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.

Trafficker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The lies Trump told this week: from murder rates to climate change Read more “President Obama has commuted the sentences of record numbers of high-level drug traffickers.
  • (2) Sabogal was one of a group of four Colombians who took over the reins of the country's biggest drug-trafficking outfit after the arrest and deportation to the United States of drug baron Luis Hernando Gómez Bustamante in 2004.
  • (3) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
  • (4) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
  • (5) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
  • (6) 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.
  • (7) "The government will ban qat so that we can protect vulnerable members of our communities and send a clear message to our international partners and qat smugglers that the UK is serious about stopping the illegal trafficking of qat."
  • (8) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
  • (9) She, and three other captives, were told that if they didn't pay $10,000 each within a few days, they would be sold to Bedouin traffickers in Sinai.
  • (10) The bulk flow model of intracellular trafficking predicts that forward transport from the ER through the Golgi to the plasma membrane proceeds by default without a special signal being required (Wieland, F.T., Gleason, M. L., Serafini, T. A., and Rothman, J. E. (1987) Cell 50, 289-300).
  • (11) "Women who are forced to become prostitutes via trafficking are examples of modern-day slavery."
  • (12) But the controversy generated by Lindsay Lohan's Indian Journey, documenting the Hollywood actor's investigation into child trafficking was not quite matched by its ratings, with 224,000 viewers on Thursday, 1 April.
  • (13) As the gangs fragmented, many increasingly focused on extortion, kidnapping and human trafficking.
  • (14) This is how powerful a hold it has over them.” Mossino, who works with refugees and asylum seekers as well as victims of trafficking, says that in the past decade the trade in Nigerian women has become a hugely profitable and ruthless criminal industry, controlled largely by Nigerian gangs that took root in Italy in the 1980s.
  • (15) First, the US, with reported Nato agreement, has already added Taliban-supporting drug traffickers – alleged criminals – to its kill list.
  • (16) After months of desperate legal and diplomatic appeals, Indonesia executed eight convicted drug traffickers – citizens of Australia, Nigeria, Ghana, Brazil and Indonesia – in the early hours of the morning.
  • (17) In December last year, Eritrea’s minister of foreign affairs, Osman Saleh, told an EU–Horn of Africa conference that his country was “determined to work with the EU and all European countries to tackle irregular migration and human trafficking and to address their root causes”.
  • (18) There are many other nations that fail to distinguish between the users and the traffickers, who seek to exploit the demand.
  • (19) Mexican armed forces will take over security in a large swath of a western state where shootouts between vigilante groups and drug traffickers erupted over the weekend, a top official has announced.
  • (20) India is presently facing the problem of increased trafficking in drugs; heroin and hashish are supplied to the west through the subcontinent.

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