Synonym: merchandiser. Similar words: commercial, purchase, at the mercy of, change, chance, channel, exchange, by chance. Meaning: ['mɜrtʃənt /'mɜː-] n. a businessperson engaged in retail trade.
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(151) But a merchant needs capital to trade with, and a government needs money to spend.
(152) He had been a leather merchant and a tanner, and had been involved in some disreputable affair.
(153) The group's merchant banking adviser, Kleinwort Benson, is searching for suitable partners.
(154) Or, as the merchant decides to call them, Banana on a Stick.
(155) There was a strong merchant class whose aspirations were no less than his.
(156) His cousin John Falconar was already an established Cheapside merchant.
(157) The merchant capitalists who controlled the City were much opposed to changes in this.
(158) Crosby Hall was built by Sir John Crosby, a wealthy grocer and wool merchant, and was completed in 1475.
(159) The incident also offered us a glimpse of the glamorous, sometimes expensive, globe trotting lifestyle of a successful wine merchant.
(160) The knight speaks for the landed interest, the merchant for international trade, and the capper for the working master craftsman.
(161) By 1816 she had married a wealthy merchant named Hedgeland, who was dead by 1820.
(162) As Pearl shares raced ahead there was some determined buying of merchant banks, particularly Morgan Grenfell.
(163) Meale, who began working life as a merchant seaman and was later an Aycliffe councillor, is unamused.
(164) Take an example: Mrs. Jones telephones her coal merchant asking him to deliver six bags of coal.
(165) A wine merchant by profession, with a well-established business in the Minories, he had a lifelong interest in cricket.
(166) A strong merchant banking contribution was more than offset by losses on investment management and stockbroking and some heavy loan provisions.
(167) Born to a wealthy cloth merchant, Francis lived a lavish and irresponsible life.
(168) He appears among merchants as a merchant, among princes as a prince; even among insects as an insect.
(169) In the later Middle Ages, Prague was an important merchant city and cultural centre.
(170) Most of the fall came as a result of the release of provisions in the merchant banking and securities division.
(171) When buying your feed, ask the merchant about ingredients and nutrient levels in different mixes.
(172) The date is carefully selected in consultation with merchant and consumer associations, he said.
(173) Thanks to the new rules, commercial banks will soon be able to compete with the merchant banks on the same terms.
(174) While doing this he gave a wonderful imitation of his coal merchant and his wife.
(175) On merchant ships the sailors work largely in darkness below decks because oil is a precious thing.
(176) A Mr Crump stayed here last night, a Liverpool merchant.
(177) Your family now control Duncan Pharsee Schiller,(http://sentencedict.com/merchant.html) one of the city's major merchant banks.
(178) Some 22,500 foreign merchant ships passed through in 1992, a 10 percent increase on the previous year.
(179) He started a business as a corn merchant in Fimber, and moved to Driffield in 1869.
(180) At twenty-eight he was a wealthy merchant and a member of Congress.
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