merchant
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- merchaunt (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English marchant, from Anglo-Norman marchant, from Latin mercans (“a buyer”), present participle of mercor (“trade, traffic, buy”), from merx (“merchandise, traffic”), from merere (“to gain, buy, purchase, also deserve, merit”); see mercy and merit.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈmɜː(ɹ)tʃənt/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃənt
Noun[edit]
merchant (plural merchants)
- A person who traffics in commodities for profit.
- The owner or operator of a retail business.
- A trading vessel; a merchantman.
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Translations[edit]
person who traffics in commodities
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the owner or operator of a retail business
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Verb[edit]
merchant (third-person singular simple present merchants, present participle merchanting, simple past and past participle merchanted)
- As a resident of a region, to buy goods from a non-resident and sell them to another non-resident.
- a merchanting service
External links[edit]
- merchant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- merchant in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- “merchant” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
