Word Meanings - CHAFFER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who chaffs.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHAFFER)
- Bargain
- Transaction
- negotiation
- business
- profit
- speculation
- higgling
- gain
- hawking
- chaffer
- haggling
- Deal
- trade
- dispense
- market
- communicate
- negotiate
- traffic
- Haggle
- Higgle
- bargain
- stickle
Related words: (words related to CHAFFER)
- TRADE-MARK
A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law. - HAWKED
Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked. - DISPENSE
1. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott. 2. - MARKETABLENESS
Quality of being marketable. - HAWKER
One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman. - TRAFFICLESS
Destitute of traffic, or trade. - HAGGLE
To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay - BUSINESS
The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's - CHAFFERY
Traffic; bargaining. Spenser. - BARGAINER
One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor. - TRAFFIC MILE
Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period; -- a term and practice of restricted or erroneous usage. Traffic mile is a term designed to furnish an excuse - PROFIT
1. Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain - MARKETER
One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market. - MARKETSTEAD
A market place. Drayton. - HIGGLER
One who higgles. - TRADESFOLK
People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift. - PROFITABLE
Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor. - HAWK MOTH
Any moth of the family Sphingidæ, of which there are numerous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis. - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. - HAWKEYE STATE
Iowa; -- a nickname of obscure origin. - MOHAWK
One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River. 2. One of certain ruffians who infested the streets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians. - SOLE TRADER
A feme sole trader. - NEWMARKET
A long, closely fitting cloak. - HOVER-HAWK
The kestrel. - UNDISPENSED
1. Not dispensed. 2. Not freed by dispensation. Tooker. - DORHAWK
The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker. Booth. - UNPROFIT
Want of profit; unprofitableness. Wyclif.