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US
/ˈmɝtʃənt/
]
[ UK /mˈɜːtʃənt/ ]
[ UK /mˈɜːtʃənt/ ]
NOUN
- a businessperson engaged in retail trade
How To Use merchant In A Sentence
- The specialists simply have to intensify their focus to stay alive, offering products and services that mass merchants cannot.
- He had a bank balance that a senior merchant banker would not be ashamed of.
- The two merchants didn't look entirely pleased to have the players mooching off of their business, but it was obvious to the eyes of an outsider that the music was actually attracting customers.
- First, there was what I think could be the type of small-calibre stern gun which was fitted to most World War Two merchantmen. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
- When you hear the words, " adventure travel" , perhaps you think ofthe Venetian merchant Marco Polo, the distinguished African explorer David Livingstone, or North Pole adventurer Robert Peary.
- No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. Alfred Tennyson
- Sometimes a merchant would stop by, looking for gemstones or precious metals that couldn't be found anywhere else.
- The relationship with her mother, Zippora, née Assur, the daughter of a prosperous merchant family, who had never attended school, became more and more difficult. Fanny Lewald.
- Merchants could pay a steep price for stiffing shoppers.
- Take time to shop around; get to know your local wine merchant or investigate your local supermarket.