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
The neighborhood is home to hundreds of merchants selling everything from neckties to quinceañera dresses to bright swaths of fabric.
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Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
Also, businesses suffer from the fees Visa and Mastercard charge merchants on customer payments; those have climbed steadily as well because the two dominant processors use a variety of techniques to keep their grip on that market.
—Carter Dougherty, Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2026
With its fertile soil and strategic location, the Sultanate of Johor drew immigrants from all over Asia—merchants, miners, farmworkers.
—Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
Shopify Plus recently partnered with Uber to enable its merchants to opt into its Uber Direct platform, which allows sellers like Gymshark, Skims and Fashion Nova to integrate the on-demand delivery service to their Shopify online store and point-of-sale system.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 6 Feb. 2026
Bazaar merchants took to the streets, and the public stood behind them.
—Shahrnush Parsipur, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
Otherwise disparate segments of Iranian society, such as the conservative Bazaari merchants hitherto largely loyal to the clerics and more liberal and secular Iranian youth, shared this overarching goal.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
After the Blitz, there was virtually nothing left of the old docks that had connected London’s merchants to the Empire, or the foundries and yards where great ships had been launched.
—Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Factors, a term for merchants, brought samples to the exchange.
—Jim Halley, AJC.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
Also, businesses suffer from the fees Visa and Mastercard charge merchants on customer payments; those have climbed steadily as well because the two dominant processors use a variety of techniques to keep their grip on that market.
—Carter Dougherty, Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2026
With its fertile soil and strategic location, the Sultanate of Johor drew immigrants from all over Asia—merchants, miners, farmworkers.
—Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
Shopify Plus recently partnered with Uber to enable its merchants to opt into its Uber Direct platform, which allows sellers like Gymshark, Skims and Fashion Nova to integrate the on-demand delivery service to their Shopify online store and point-of-sale system.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 6 Feb. 2026
Bazaar merchants took to the streets, and the public stood behind them.
—Shahrnush Parsipur, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
Otherwise disparate segments of Iranian society, such as the conservative Bazaari merchants hitherto largely loyal to the clerics and more liberal and secular Iranian youth, shared this overarching goal.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
After the Blitz, there was virtually nothing left of the old docks that had connected London’s merchants to the Empire, or the foundries and yards where great ships had been launched.
—Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Factors, a term for merchants, brought samples to the exchange.
—Jim Halley, AJC.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for merchants
Noun
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For mean reversion traders, this post-volatility environment is a goldmine.—
Nishant Pant,
CNBC,
10 Feb. 2026
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To put it in perspective, $2 trillion was wiped off the market cap of software companies last week, which traders thought might be decimated by AI companies replacing them.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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My key priorities include prosecuting violent offenders, gangs, traffickers, fentanyl dealers, and cartels; supporting local law enforcement; pursuing lawsuits to defend Texas; and aggressively investigating and prosecuting fraud.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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Kristersson is one of the hundreds of politicians, diplomats, security officials, and arms dealers gathering at the Munich Security Conference this weekend to consider the end of a period of unrivaled American power.—
Isaac Stanley-Becker,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Merchants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/merchants. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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