as in traders
a buyer and seller of goods for profit
free trade agreements that are favored by merchants on both sides of the border
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Recent Examples of merchants
Along the east side of 9th Street between J and L streets, metal doors once led to elevators that allowed merchants to store goods underground.
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James Taylor, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2026
Kumari writes that horses from Central Asia mainly arrived in India over land routes, brought by merchants from nomadic cultures who traveled in caravans.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 20 Mar. 2026
Over the years, tents gave way to permanent homes, markets sprang up, and the Iranian Kurds obtained the right to work, many as merchants, taxi drivers and factory workers.
—Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
Those same merchants and planters were also heavily involved in the first Portuguese incursions into mainland Central Africa, which resulted in the establishment of the colony of Angola in 1575—a key lever for the slave trade’s growth.
—Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
Tickets are $25 each, plus processing fees, and include appetizer and dessert tastings from 14 restaurants and eateries, free all-day parking at the 150 York Street Garage (Chapel-York Garage), shopping offers from local merchants, and a cotton tote bag, according to a statement.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026
Secondary market tickets for WBC games can be bought through online merchants such as StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats and Ticketmaster that have some protections for the buyer.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 Mar. 2026
The series had practically become Coachella by the time the penultimate season rolled around, with members of Sigur Rós, Of Monsters and Men, and Mastodon all turning up as soldiers or merchants or, most often, musicians.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Mar. 2026
First is that the rewards and benefits are funded by the property managers and the merchants.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 10 Mar. 2026
James Taylor, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2026
Kumari writes that horses from Central Asia mainly arrived in India over land routes, brought by merchants from nomadic cultures who traveled in caravans.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 20 Mar. 2026
Over the years, tents gave way to permanent homes, markets sprang up, and the Iranian Kurds obtained the right to work, many as merchants, taxi drivers and factory workers.
—Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
Those same merchants and planters were also heavily involved in the first Portuguese incursions into mainland Central Africa, which resulted in the establishment of the colony of Angola in 1575—a key lever for the slave trade’s growth.
—Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
Tickets are $25 each, plus processing fees, and include appetizer and dessert tastings from 14 restaurants and eateries, free all-day parking at the 150 York Street Garage (Chapel-York Garage), shopping offers from local merchants, and a cotton tote bag, according to a statement.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026
Secondary market tickets for WBC games can be bought through online merchants such as StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats and Ticketmaster that have some protections for the buyer.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 Mar. 2026
The series had practically become Coachella by the time the penultimate season rolled around, with members of Sigur Rós, Of Monsters and Men, and Mastodon all turning up as soldiers or merchants or, most often, musicians.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Mar. 2026
First is that the rewards and benefits are funded by the property managers and the merchants.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 10 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for merchants
Noun
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Maintaining this position required cutting out the powerful coastal Nigerian traders who had served as middlemen between the British merchants and the hinterland producers.—
Noo Saro-Wiwa,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 2026
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As options traders, our playbook right now should be strictly focused on keeping trading volume low, reducing capital exposure, and pushing expiration dates further out to give our setups room to breathe.—
Nishant Pant,
CNBC,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The tolerance of drugs use led to dealers using Christiania as a base for selling drugs and in turn that led to violent battles by biker gangs for control of that business.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2026
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So that talks about bringing the car in on like a container truck for shipping and these dealers and buyers were allegedly falsifying those documents to say the vehicle had been in Montana for X period of months and then bringing it in when in reality the vehicle never was.—
Joel Feder,
The Drive,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Merchants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/merchants. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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