How to Use free trader in a Sentence

free trader

noun

• On trade, Kudlow is more of a free trader who might agree to target China with tariffs.
  — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• The free traders fearful of rising imperialism were so right.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• Gary Cohn may be a Democrat who is a free trader, but that's the exception in the party, not the rule.
  — Fox News, 11 Mar. 2018
• These captains of commerce aren’t Reagan or even Bill Clinton-style free traders.
  — Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 1 July 2024
• Moore and Laffer are ardent free traders; as such, their views are well within the mainstream of modern economics.
  — N. Gregory Mankiw, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018
• Even the most committed free traders admit protectionism does its damage slowly.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 20 June 2018
• But for most of the country’s history, Americans have been anything but free traders beyond their own borders.
  — John Steele Gordon, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
• There are no longer enough free traders in either party to push globalization forward; the question is whether there are enough to keep it from sliding backward.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2018
• The real divide over TPP was not between free traders and protectionists.
  — Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 25 Jan. 2017
• Her father, James, was the passionate free trader who had founded The Economist.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
• Corchado, a budding free trader, is optimistic that American democracy and rule of law will boost both countries.
  — Jill Leovy, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
• In popular memory, the anti-free traders came to be seen as akin to the machine-breaking luddites of the industrial revolution.
  — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
• Ryan was always an outspoken free trader and believer in the power of markets; Trump is a protectionist who has pursued tariffs and started a trade war.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2018
• On Capitol Hill, the response depended as much on whether lawmakers were longtime free traders as on their party affiliation.
  — Lingling Wei, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• Once in office, though, Clinton emerged as an ardent free trader, calling more than 200 House members to push for ratification of the treaty.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 27 June 2022
• Like most conservative economists at the time, Hassett was a staunch deficit hawk, an advocate of higher levels of immigration, and, above all else, an unabashed free trader.
  — Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
• Reagan was also a free trader and foreign policy internationalist.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 4 June 2018
• For close globalization watchers, this one world capitalist free trader model has been on the outs since the Battle in Seattle in 1999.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
• Cohn, a free trader, resigned from the White House position in May of 2018 after Trump announced tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
  — Jay Heflin, Washington Examiner, 14 Sep. 2020
• Where deep disagreement does exist is primarily within the Republican Party itself, where free traders are increasingly sidelined.
  — Aroop Mukharji, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2025
• Modern-day protectionists have seized on it to cast Reagan as something less than a free trader, and fans of the current president have used these sentiments to link The Gipper to The Donald.
  — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
• The free-trade agenda sought to deregulate the labor market and prioritize market efficiency, strengthening the hands of employers and severely weakening union and social movements, as anti-free traders had predicted.
  — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025