Trader
['treɪdə] or ['tredɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold.
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Definition
(n.) One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader.
(n.) A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Tradesman, dealer, shop-keeper, merchant.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a horse-trader, signifies great profit from perilous ventures. To dream that you are trading horses, and the trader cheats you, you will lose in trade or love. If you get a better horse than the one you traded, you will better yourself in fortune.
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Examples
- Well, call up this evening, between six and seven, and you shall have my answer, said Mr. Shelby, and the trader bowed himself out of the apartment. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The trader turned away in silence. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Whether the stock is or is not constantly employed, depends, not upon the trade, but the trader. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She immediately fell into the slave-trader's fangs, and was doomed for the New Orleans market. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The trader and Mr. Shelby were seated together in the dining room afore-named, at a table covered with papers and writing utensils. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There muSt. But if the trader goes empty-handed, having nothing which they require who would supply his need, he will come back empty-handed. Plato. The Republic.
- O, mamma, said a boy, who had just come up from below, there's a negro trader on board, and he's brought four or five slaves down there. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And the trader leaned back in his chair, and folded his arm, with an air of virtuous decision, apparently considering himself a second Wilberforce. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Still she thought she heard the trader make an offer for her boy;--could she be mistaken? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The enlightened, cultivated, intelligent man, who supports the system of which the trader is the inevitable result, or the poor trader himself? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Wal, you know, they may 'blige _me_, too, said the trader. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- After a time, he saw the trader returning, with an alert step, in company with a colored woman, bearing in her arms a young child. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The woman's passionate exclamations collected a crowd around her, and the trader briefly explained to them the cause of the agitation. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Mr. Shelby was busy in counting some bundles of bills, which, as they were counted, he pushed over to the trader, who counted them likewise. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Well, you'll let me have the boy, though, said the trader; you must own I've come down pretty handsomely for him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He limited the number of these traders to one for each of his three armies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You know your master never deals with those southern traders, and never means to sell any of his servants, as long as they behave well. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Babylon was full of Aramean traders, who had great establishments, with slaves, freed-men, employees of all sorts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was no sea life, there were no pirate raiders, no strange traders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The American traders and Mexican smugglers came to the relief. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These traders upon religion he and his followers cast out, overturning the tables. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They appeared as pirates, raiders, and traders both upon the Caspian and the Black Sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Into this new world came the Europeans, and found the rifle already there in the hands of the Arab slave-traders, and negro life in disorder. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the Babylonian and Assyrian world the traders were predominantly the Semitic Arameans, the ancestors of the modern Syrians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Traders came in from the outside. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They might still be able to give the utmost assistance which banks and bankers can with propriety give to traders of every kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They are the orderly class, which in a nation of traders is sure to be the richeSt. Naturally so. Plato. The Republic.
- They were great seamen because they were great traders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such traders, though in other respects of servile, or very nearly of servile condition, were upon this account called free traders. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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