free trader
Americannoun
noun
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a person who supports or advocates free trade
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archaic a smuggler or smuggling vessel
Etymology
Origin of free trader
First recorded in 1690–1700; free trade + -er 1
Example Sentences
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He is also—contrary to Trump as well as some of his rivals in the upcoming primaries, notably Sen. Bernie Sanders—an unabashed free trader.
From Slate • May 2, 2019
“It’s caveated more than it used to be. It’s tougher to find somebody who would just go out unabashedly and say, ‘I’m a free trader.’
From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2018
At a high-level summit promoting the project China’s President Xi Jinping on Sunday portrayed the country as a committed free trader and pledged more than $100 billion in new financing and assistance.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2017
So we need people— I’m a free trader.
From Time • Jun. 16, 2015
Hence comes the lowering of prices to the consumer in protected articles, a fact which is the cause of much satiric laughter to the free trader because he can neither deny nor explain it.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
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