Word Meanings - WARMONGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary. Spenser.

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• 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.
• 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
• TRADESFOLK
  People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• MERCENARY
  1. Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers. 2. Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish. Shak. For God forbid I should my papers blot With mercenary lines,
• TRADED
  Professional; practiced. Shak.
• TRADELESS
  Having no trade or traffic. Young.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• TRADES-UNIONIST; TRADE-UNIONIST
  A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.
• 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.
• TRADESCANTIA
  A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.
• TRADESWOMAN
  A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.
• TRADESMAN
  1. One who trades; a shopkeeper. 2. A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands. Burrill.
• TRADE NAME
  The name by which an article is called among traders, etc.; as, tin spirits is a common trade name in the dyeing industry for various solutions of tin salts. An invented or arbitrary adopted name given by a manufacturer or merchant to an article
• TRADE
  The trade winds. 9. Refuse or rubbish from a mine. Syn. -- Profession; occupation; office; calling; avocation; employment; commerce; dealing; traffic. Board of trade. See under Board. -- Trade dollar. See under Dollar. -- Trade price, the price
• TRADES UNION; TRADE UNION
  An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• TRADEFUL
  Full of trade; busy in traffic; commercial. Spenser.
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• BALUSTRADE
  A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.
• TETRADECANE
  A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.
• OVERTRADE
  To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.