HAWKERS Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

hawkers

noun

plural of hawker

as in vendors

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 hawkers The dog hawkers, however, don’t fit into any Peace Action report or lecture to visiting students. — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026 The reason there were so many children there to begin with was because their mothers, who worked as hawkers, had nowhere else to leave them. — Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Aug. 2026 The peanut hawkers at sports venues over a century ago wouldn’t recognize the diversity of food—or seating types—in today’s modern stadium. — Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 There will be huge crowds in the Battery and Downtown Thursday for the Knicks parade and afterwards some will be interested in going to Liberty and Ellis, making easy prey for the hawkers. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 June 2026 Speaking to the outlet, fellow officer Muhammad Shamsul Alam Sarkar said that most of those who died were hawkers of plastic items and worked in the town of Chowmuhani. — Adam England, PEOPLE, 25 May 2026 Across history, hawkers of new communications technologies have expressed a desire to smooth out and speed up human conversation. — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026 Bring your pastry to Marine Parade’s public lawns for a lakeside lunch in view of street performers, snack carts and thrill ride hawkers. — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026 The patio at Murphy’s grew fuller by the minute and an hour or so later, the Wrigley ball hawkers — a dwindling group of fans who gather along Waveland Avenue to catch home run balls launched well over the left field fence — were starting to take their positions. — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026

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Noun

Other cybersecurity vendors have been tracking the threat, and cataloging the various malware strains, which include BeaverTail, capable of targeting both Windows and macOS.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026
The city has extended the agreements many times since then, including with bus vendors who consistently provide poor service.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of vendors

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British historian Dan Jones is the author of The New York Times nonfiction best sellers The Plantagenets and Powers and Thrones.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 15 Sep. 2026
On all of the aforementioned platforms, live selling happens 24/7 through a wide variety of third-party sellers who operate out of these marketplaces like vendors in a digital shopping mall.

— Larry Holder, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of sellers

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But at each step, the NCAA fought reform through lobbying and influence peddlers focusing more on its finances than the well-being of athletes.

— U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Hartford Courant, 24 Aug. 2026
Find a souvenir in the high-end boutiques on Montana Avenue, the independent shops and vintage stores along Main Street or the brand-name peddlers at Santa Monica Place.

— Carrie Bell, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

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Founded in 1859, Kimmswick was once a bustling river port and a popular steamboat stop, and was also home to immigrants, craftspeople, entrepreneurs, and merchants.

— Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2026
This means that merchants can offer consistent clienteling experiences across global markets—and without maintaining a separate integration for each storefront.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of merchants

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The fact that none of that advice could ever help someone find real intimacy or success isn’t a problem for the manosphere hucksters, because those achievements would be bad for the business model.

— Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
Yet many mysteries remain, and plenty of myths and pseudoscientific claims surrounding the brain are still out there — many based on either misunderstandings of the empirical data or the misleading promises of hucksters.

— Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 19 Sep. 2025

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