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    merchant


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    1. A moneychanger is like a merchant of sorts


    2. The merchant stalls were thickest on the wide pavements that surrounded the walls of the palace


    3. A lone merchant on break was relaxing with a bite to eat and a the newspaper


    4. The writer liked the ideal, and the merchant wanted the equipment


    5. merchant who was feeling the pinch of the King’s recent


    6. This horse carriage was owned by a Cheese Merchant, who had come to sell all her cheeses


    7. But then, a bureaucratic sheriff came along and declared that the Cheese Merchant needed to fill in a 93-paged form before she could enter Trouble Valley, filled with queries like: MOTHERS MAIDEN NAME__________________


    8. holding his wife’s hand in his own, the old merchant


    9. merchant, and there was plush furniture throughout


    10. merchant at his daughter

    11. he discovered she was wedded to the wealthiest merchant


    12. It seems she was waiting for an audience with her employer and happened into a conversation with a wealthy merchant of southern China, who was to meet with the Minister of Trade or some such


    13. Neither of their applications for audience came to anything that day, and she invited the merchant to tea and a continuance of their discussion


    14. The merchant outlined the tenets of the discipline and various verifications of its claims, adding as he did so that he himself was at liberty tell her what he knew of it, as he had declined the invitation to the 'path' when he was still young and very foolish


    15. ’ Ducroix turned back to the wine merchant


    16. wine merchant, no less


    17. merchant was in grave peril


    18. by all means come in,’ said the merchant sarcastically,


    19. Captain Jones had worked his way up from the wharf to deckhand and then onto the merchant shipping line to eventually become a commissioned captain


    20. ‘Did you know the merchant

    21. A landlord, a farmer, a master manufacturer, or merchant, though they did not employ a single workman, could generally live a year or two upon the stocks, which they have already acquired


    22. thief was caught trying to rob a visiting merchant at the


    23. a great company, or even a great merchant, has twenty or thirty ships at sea, they may, as it


    24. necessary for a great merchant, which nothing hinders him from becoming but the want of a


    25. therefore, are there more nearly upon a level with those of the wholesale merchant


    26. The speculative merchant exercises no


    27. He is a corn merchant this year,


    28. and a wine merchant the next, and a sugar, tobacco, or tea merchant the year after


    29. war, when forty or fifty thousand sailors are forced from the merchant service into that of the


    30. king, the demand for sailors to merchant ships necessarily rises with their scarcity ; and their

    31. The operations of the speculative merchant are principally employed about


    32. It is everywhere much easier for a wealthy merchant to obtain the privilege


    33. "I heard he was a skilled merchant and a brave warrior


    34. It was then, among other proof to the same purpose, given in evidence by a Virginia merchant, that in March 1763, he had victualled his ships for twentyfour or twenty-five shillings the hundred weight of beef, which he considered as the ordinary price; whereas, in that dear year, he had paid twenty-seven shillings for the same weight and sort


    35. merchant in the western quarter of the city


    36. As a merchant they treated


    37. According to Mr Meggens {Postscript to the Universal Merchant p


    38. The great experience of this judicious merchant renders his opinion of considerable weight


    39. said the little merchant


    40. in Carcassonne and become a merchant

    41. But I’m going to be a merchant captain, not a soldier


    42. The capital of a merchant, for example, is altogether a circulating capital


    43. Fourthly, and lastly, of the work which is made up and completed, but which is still in the hands of the merchant and manufacturer, and not yet disposed of or distributed to the proper consumers; such as the finished work which we frequently find ready made in the shops of the smith, the cabinet-maker, the goldsmith, the jeweller, the china-merchant, etc


    44. The banker, who advances to the merchant whose bill he discounts, not gold and silver, but his own promissory notes, has the advantage of being able to discount to a greater amount by the whole value of his promissory notes, which he finds, by experience, are commonly in circulation


    45. By means of those cash accounts, every merchant can, without imprudence, carry on a greater trade than he otherwise could do


    46. in the same branch of trade, the Edinburgh merchant can, without imprudence,


    47. The merchant in Edinburgh, on the other hand, keeps no money unemployed for answering such occasional demands


    48. With the same stock, therefore, he can, without imprudence, have at all times in his warehouse a larger quantity of goods than the London merchant ; and can thereby both make a greater profit himself, and give constant employment to a greater number of industrious people who prepare those goods for the market


    49. When a bank discounts to a merchant a real bill of exchange, drawn by a real creditor upon a real debtor, and which, as soon as it becomes due, is really paid by that debtor ; it only advances to him a part of the value which he would otherwise be obliged to keep by him unemployed and in ready money, for answering occasional demands


    50. No, her only chance was to find a merchant ship about to leave the port














































    1. The same merchants are selling the same goods before and after the fad


    2. Having this capability separates the ho hum Internet merchants from the ones that really make the cash register ring


    3. They hadn't declared themselves a tribe to the Gengee City Merchants Association either, but a few of them were members in good standing because of their businesses


    4. Artificially inflating demand was not considered an acceptable business practice in this culture, and people did not patronize merchants who engaged in 'push' advertising


    5. Around her home there had come the houses of merchants and bankers, followed by the lowlier dwellings of middle class managers and finally there came the estate houses of the common workers


    6. Tarak asked Mistress Sera to show Rayne around the Hold and introduce her to the many merchants and their shops


    7. Around her home there had come the houses of merchants


    8. meats and several fish merchants, each competing with the others to


    9. Allcock made a grand announcement that his pursuit of New York City merchants for his tackle merchandise had at last yielded some success---thanks in large part to Harry


    10. They took a short sailing trip one day when the tide was high, to Tombelaine and back, imagining as they voyaged how merchants in ships of yore must have felt as they approached the island and the fortress it once was

    11. It had not been lost on any of that powerful cadre of merchants and proprietors comprising the Village Council that Lawrence Spelman was a man of extraordinarily deep pockets, with international contacts and connections, and most eye-opening to them, he was the close friend and confidant to George and Belle Livingson


    12. merchants of Tarshish and all her


    13. merchants and services catering for the King and his


    14. A public mourning raises the price of black cloth ( with which the market is almost always understocked upon such occasions), and augments the profits of the merchants who possess any considerable quantity of it


    15. It sinks the price of coloured silks and cloths, and thereby reduces the profits of the merchants who have any considerable quantity of them upon hand


    16. merchants from the colonial times


    17. It was probably used by roving merchants from other parts of the city that just wanted some rest and relief without the long climb to better quarters


    18. When the stocks of many rich merchants are turned into the same trade, their mutual competition naturally tends to lower its profit; and when there is a like increase of stock in all the different trades carried on in the same society, the same competition must produce the same effect in them all


    19. trade, I have been assured by British merchants who had traded in both countries, are higher


    20. When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays, though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before

    21. Double interest is in Great Britain reckoned what the merchants call a good, moderate, reasonable profit; terms which, I apprehend, mean no more than a common and usual profit


    22. merchants who employ them


    23. alien merchants, all tend to the same purpose


    24. Born to a long line of wealthy merchants, a family tree steeped with riches, Brice had spent his childhood surrounded in luxury


    25. In ancient times, too, it was usual to attempt to regulate the profits of merchants and other


    26. We see frequently societies of merchants in London, and other trading towns, purchase waste lands in our sugar colonies, which they expect to improve and cultivate with profit, by means of factors and agents, notwithstanding the great distance and the uncertain returns, from the defective administration of justice in those countries


    27. I have never even heard of any tobacco plantation that was improved and cultivated by the capital of merchants who resided in Great Britain; and our tobacco colonies send us home no such wealthy planters as we see frequently arrive from our sugar islands


    28. saddler’s stall, from the man cooking chunks of roasted kid over a brazier, from the shops of potters, mercers, armorers, chandlers, lamp merchants, apothecaries, and many more


    29. comfortably and watched the merchants dismantling their


    30. It was not then the policy of Europe to restrain, by high duties, the importation of foreign manufactures, but rather to encourage it, in order that merchants might be enabled to supply, at as easy a rate as possible, the great men with the conveniencies and luxuries which they wanted, and which the industry of their own country could not afford them

    31. Merchants and master manufacturers are, in this order, the two classes of people who commonly employ the largest capitals, and who by their wealth draw to themselves the greatest share of the public consideration


    32. All merchants, therefore, and almost all men of business, find it convenient to keep such cash accounts with them, and are thereby interested to promote the trade of those companies, by readily receiving their notes in all payments, and by encouraging all those with whom they have any influence to do the same


    33. These the merchants pay away to the manufacturers for goods, the manufacturers to the farmers for materials and provisions, the farmers to their landlords for rent; the landlords repay them to the merchants for the conveniencies and luxuries with which they supply them, and the merchants again return them to the banks, in order to balance their cash accounts, or to replace what they my have borrowed of them ; and thus almost the whole money business of the country is transacted by means of them


    34. If there are two merchants, one in London and the other in Edinburgh, who employ equal stocks


    35. The customs of merchants, which were established when the barbarous laws of Europe did not enforce the performance of their contracts, and which, during the course of the two last centuries, have been adopted into the laws of all European nations, have given such extraordinary privileges to bills of exchange, that money is more readily advanced upon them than upon any other species of obligation; especially when they are made payable within so short a period as two or three months after their date


    36. The Greeks, more merchants but buyers


    37. Although the merchants are not in strike, the


    38. Merchants brought in stocks from Cyrenaica and Egypt, but only the rich could afford to eat bread now


    39. In the first way are employed the capitals of all those who undertake improvement or cultivation of lands, mines, or fisheries; in the second, those of all master manufacturers ; in the third, those of all wholesale merchants; and in the fourth, those of all retailers


    40. The merchants who export it, replace the capitals of the people who produce it, and thereby encourage them to continue the production ; and the British manufacturers replace the capitals of those merchants

    41. If there are any merchants among them, they are, properly, only the agents of wealthier merchants who reside in some of the great commercial cities


    42. The greater part, both of the exportation and coasting trade of America, is carried on by the capitals of merchants who reside in Great Britain


    43. Even the stores and warehouses from which goods are retailed in some provinces, particularly in Virginia and Maryland, belong many of them to merchants who reside in the mother country, and afford one of the few instances of the retail trade of a society being carried on by the capitals of those who are not resident members of it


    44. If those two or three distinct foreign trades should happen to be carried on by two or three distinct merchants, of whom the second buys the goods imported by the first, and the third buys those imported by the second, in order to export them again, each merchant, indeed, will, in this case, receive the returns of his own capital more quickly ; but the final returns of the whole capital employed in the trade will be just as slow as ever


    45. Whether the whole capital employed in such a round about trade belong to one merchant or to three, can make no difference with regard to the country, though it may with regard to the particular merchants


    46. The trade which is carried on in British bottoms between the different ports of the Mediterranean, and some trade of the same kind carried on by British merchants between the different ports of India, make, perhaps, the principal branches of what is properly the carrying trade of Great Britain


    47. He slowly made his way near the marketplace, glancing at his fellow merchants languishing in their boredom


    48. With the collaboration agreed upon he would make his way back to his stall, only to have the young woman eventually make her way to it after inspecting the wares hawked by the other merchants


    49. It was a favorite tactic of merchants in Cyrodiil, particularly the Imperial City


    50. Through the greater part of Europe, the yeomanry are regarded as an inferior rank of people, even to the better sort of tradesmen and mechanics, and in all parts of Europe to the great merchants and master manufacturers














































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    Synonyms for "merchant"

    merchandiser merchant retailer tradesman

    "merchant" definitions

    a businessperson engaged in retail trade