as in vendor
one who sells things outdoors
street corner hawkers selling everything from fake designer purses to original works of art
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Recent Examples of hawker
Unregistered hawker & peddler ordinance.
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Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
The city’s famous hawker centers (open-air food halls filled with small stalls run by local vendors) bring together Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Peranakan flavors.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
Iceland joins the list, along with other intangible cultural heritage practices such as Finnish sauna, Swiss yodeling, Italian cooking, Singaporean hawker food, and Uzbek yurts.
—Lauren Breedlove, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
Yeo’s character, a beer supplier at a hawker centre, is an immigrant woman who arrives in the lives of a father and son, embodying the film’s central tension between belonging and estrangement.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Feb. 2026
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Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
The city’s famous hawker centers (open-air food halls filled with small stalls run by local vendors) bring together Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Peranakan flavors.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
Iceland joins the list, along with other intangible cultural heritage practices such as Finnish sauna, Swiss yodeling, Italian cooking, Singaporean hawker food, and Uzbek yurts.
—Lauren Breedlove, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
Yeo’s character, a beer supplier at a hawker centre, is an immigrant woman who arrives in the lives of a father and son, embodying the film’s central tension between belonging and estrangement.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hawker
Noun
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Replacement ballots are being sent to voters to correct the vendor error.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
19 May 2026
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The event featured carnival rides, games, live entertainment and vendors serving various ethnic food, drinks and desserts.—
Mona Darwish,
Oc Register,
18 May 2026
Noun
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That includes face-value pricing for games, where the more enticing games are more expensive, and FIFA’s official secondary market, which takes a 15% fee from the seller and a 15% fee on the buyer.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
13 May 2026
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The expansion will also enable more than 16,000 farmers to take their produce directly to customers through sellers on the online marketplace.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
13 May 2026
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Activists say the real death toll may never be known, with users and small-time peddlers gunned down almost daily in mysterious slumland killings blamed on vigilantes and turf wars.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
13 May 2026
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The consequences are visible in the rising numbers of street peddlers in Tehran.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Instead, the Thunder rave about how Gilgeous-Alexander hasn’t become phased with opposing team’s double teams or for his ‘free-throw merchant’ tag.—
Mark Medina,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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Glen Cove merchants say beaches bring business, and the timing is ideal, since warm weather is coming.—
Jennifer McLogan,
CBS News,
15 May 2026
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The fact that Harris and Clinton, two highly qualified women, could lose to an amoral TV huckster tells us that American voters either refuse or are incapable of elevating a woman to the most powerful office in the world.—
Laura Washington,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2026
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First published in 2018, this book by long-time New Yorker writer Paige Williams explores the seedier underbelly of the dinosaur world: the black-market hucksters who illegally collect and auction fossils.—
Steve Brusatte,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Hawker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawker. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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