merchant
/ˈmɝt͡ʃənt/ noun B1- A person who traffics in commodities for profit.
- The owner or operator of a retail business.
- A trading vessel; a merchantman.
- Someone who is noted for a stated type of activity or behaviour. · He's some kind of speed merchant — he drives way too fast.· Goal merchant Smith scored twice again in the match against Mudchester Rovers.
Plural merchants
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Look well at his right hand, on which he has a large wound; if you forgot his features, you would know him by that hand, into which fell, one by one, the gold pieces of the merchant El-Kobbir!” I know him!
“Before he entered the merchant service, had he ever served in the marines?”
He is the most estimable, the most trustworthy creature in the world, and I will venture to say, there is not a better seaman in all the merchant service.
“You are aware, monsieur, that a man may be estimable and trustworthy in private life, and the best seaman in the merchant service, and yet be, politically speaking, a great criminal.
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