merchant

[ˈmɜːrtʃənt]

Definition:
1. A person who buys and sells goods in large quantities, especially one who imports and exports goods.
2. A businessperson engaged in retail trade.

Use 'merchant' in a sentence:

1. The gang tried to intimidate the merchant.
2. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie.
3. The merchant received a large order of coal.
4. Many foreign merchants gathered in Guangzhou.
5. His father is a merchant prince.
6. If someone uses your credit card fraudulently, it's the issuer or merchant, not you, that takes the hit.
7. The Venetian Council finally allowed round ships to enter the trade that was previously reserved for merchant galleys, thus reducing transport cost by one third.
8. The first bulb to show up in the Netherlands, the merchant who received them roasted and ate them! He thought they were kind of onion.
9. This restriction not only contributed to Great Britain's rise as Europe's foremost shipping nation but also laid the foundations for an American shipbuilding industry and merchant marine.
10. The merchant is always bright.
11. Real-time merchant account setup.
12. Ask the merchant about their exchange and return policies before making your purchase.
13. Merchant ships salute each other by dipping the flag.
14. Nikolaos Glykys is a merchant and book publisher.
15. The family was forced to live on credit from local merchants.
16. He began making overtures to a number of merchant banks.
17. In addition, women often worked in their homes part-time, making finished articles from raw material supplied by merchant capitalists.
18. He was a merchant and he had been in business in Japan for many years.
19. "If you would do me any good I would willingly tell you," said the merchant.
20. One of the characters is Wereket-El, a Phoenician merchant living at Tanis in Egypt's Nile delta.
21. Seeing the same merchant on different days gives me a better idea of who he is.
22. This man has the look of a sordid merchant written all over him.
23. As a merchant, he was a man of the world--he had seen it all.
24. He disguised himself as a merchant and managed to pass through the blockade line.
25. The merchant bank is being weighed down by a £ 1.3 billion book of bad debts.
26. The breathtaking potentialities of mechanization set the minds of manufacturers and merchants on fire.
27. Were men for the Navy recruited from men on merchant ships?
28. Europe's merchant ships spew out around a third more carbon than aircraft do, and nobody is going after them.
29. An Amsterdam merchant purchasing soap from a merchant in Marseille could go to an exchanger and pay the exchanger the equivalent sum in guilders, the Dutch currency.
30. 'How many times have I heard that before?' Merchant complained angrily.
31. Salerio is a well-connected merchant of Venice.
32. The merchant offers a bribe to him.
33. The merchant banks raise capital for industry. They don't actually put it up themselves.
34. At the other end of the social scale was the grocer, the village's only merchant.
35. He bargained with the merchant for an hour before he bought the rug.
36. The merchants of Arab are doing their things all of the world.
37. There's been a big reduction in the size of the British merchant fleet in recent years.
38. The shipowner has still held a merchant fleet of seven cargo-vessels.
39. There's been a big reduction in the size of the merchant fleet in recent years.
40. The state has extended her merchant fleet phenomenally.
41. The swift growth of this merchant marine diversified the northern colonial economy and made it more self-sufficient.
42. We sell it to the cotton merchant.
43. The ride was smooth until they got into the merchant ship's wake.
44. The main function of the merchant banks is to raise capital for industry.
45. Venice was once a city of rich merchants.
46. Bewitched by the patter of a perfume merchant, entranced by the pink and gold of these scented flasks.
47. As a gamer, he cares deeply about the difference between character classes--whether a ninja, merchant, or citizen spaceman.
48. They sent naval forces to protect merchant shipping.
49. Any knowledgeable wine merchant would be able to advise you.
50. a typical City merchant banking yahoo.