- a person who buys and sells goods in large quantities, especially one who imports and exports goods
- a coal/wine merchant
- Venice was once a city of rich merchants.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- prosperous
- rich
- wealthy
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- fleet
- marine
- navy
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- (North American English) a person who sells goods to the public, especially through a store
- The credit cards are accepted by 10 million merchants worldwide.
- (British English, informal, disapproving) a person who likes a particular activity
- a speed merchant (= somebody who likes to drive fast)
- noise merchants (= for example, a band who make a lot of noise)
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French marchant, based on Latin mercari ‘to trade’, from merx, merc- ‘merchandise’.
Idioms
See merchant in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee merchant in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishdoom merchant | prophet of doom
- a person who predicts that things will go very badly
- The doom merchants who said television would kill off the book were wrong.
prophet of doom | doom merchant
- a person who predicts that things will go very badly
- The prophets of doom who said television would kill off the book were wrong.
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