Word Meanings - TRADER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader. 2. A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRADER)

• Merchant
• Trader
• dealer
• importer
• tradesman
• trafficker
• Pedler
• Huckster
• hawker
• shopman
• trader

Related words: (words related to TRADER)

• HAWKER
  One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
• HUCKSTERER
  A huckster. Gladstone. Those hucksterers or money-jobbers. Swift.
• MERCHANTRY
  1. The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country. 2. The business of a merchant; merchandise. Walpole.
• SHOPMAN
  1. A shopkeeper; a retailer. Dryden. 2. One who serves in a shop; a salesman. 3. One who works in a shop or a factory.
• MERCHANTLY
  Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant. Gauden.
• TRADER
  1. One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader. 2. A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.
• MERCHANT
  LL. mercatans, -antis, p. pr. of mercatare to negotiate, L. mercari to traffic, fr. merx, mercis, wares. See Market, Merit, and cf. 1. One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader. Others,
• TRADESMAN
  1. One who trades; a shopkeeper. 2. A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands. Burrill.
• HUCKSTER
  akin to D. huiken to stoop, bend, OD. huycken, huken, G. hocken, to squat, Icel. h; -- the peddler being named from his stooping under 1. A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker. Swift. 2. A mean, trickish
• HUCKSTERAGE
  The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling. Ignoble huckster age of piddling tithes. Milton.
• TRAFFICKER
  One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.
• MERCHANTABLE
  Fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.
• IMPORTER
  One who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country or state; -- opposed to exporter.
• MERCHANTMAN
  1. A merchant. Matt. xiii. 45. 2. A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.
• DEALER
  1. One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer. 2. One who distributes cards to the players.
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• UNMERCHANTABLE
  Not merchantable; not fit for market; being of a kind, quality, or quantity that is unsalable. McElrath.
• JAYHAWKER
  A name given to a free-booting, unenlisted, armed man or guerrilla. Note:
• PEDLAR; PEDLER
  See PEDDLER