free trader

or free-trader

noun

1. a person who advocates free trade.

free-trader

noun

1. a person who supports or advocates free trade
2. archaic.
   a smuggler or smuggling vessel

Word History and Origins

Origin of free trader¹

First recorded in 1690–1700; free trade + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Nor was he a free trader: the Gipper granted more import relief to U.S. industry than any chief executive dating back to FDR.

From The Daily Beast

Bush, a free-trader going into his term, supported steel tariffs in his first year.

From The Daily Beast

And it's clearly the case that Obama is a Clintonseque free trader.

From The Daily Beast

The free trader would even abolish the tariff of two dollars and a half, imposed on human chattels who land at Castle Garden.

From Project Gutenberg

The admonition of the free-trader, who had enjoined the captain to allow his people to sleep, was remembered.

From Project Gutenberg

"Think of your wounded;" whispered the free-trader, with a steadiness no danger could disturb.

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The precaution the free-trader had taken, in adjusting the sails, was not without its use.

From Project Gutenberg

The boy looked wistfully into her anxious eye, and then he bent his own hesitating glance on the calm features of the free-trader.

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