Definition of Merchant

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Merchant

One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.

A trading vessel; a merchantman.

One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper.

Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service.

To be a merchant; to trade.

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Merchant Quotations

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
James Madison

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 work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Charles Baudelaire

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Anatole France

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
James Cash Penney

The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.
James Cash Penney

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.
James Cash Penney

We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.
Eric Morecambe

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
Arthur Erickson

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.
Douglass North

Merchant Translations

merchant in Afrikaans is handelaar, sakeman
merchant in Dutch is zakenman, handelaar, koopman
merchant in German is Kaufmann
merchant in Italian is commerciante
merchant in Portuguese is comerciante
merchant in Spanish is comerciante, negociante

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