free trader
noun
a person who advocates free trade.
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free-tradernouna person who supports or advocates free trade
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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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Among the party’s score of contenders, here’s a prayer that one will evoke its greatest free trader, President Woodrow Wilson.
From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2019
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
Mr. Kudlow is a free trader, and it would be useful to have at least one inside the White House.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2016
So we need people— I’m a free trader.
From Time • Jun. 16, 2015
The free trader is always ready with the terse statement that, “You cannot make yourself rich by taxing657 yourself,” followed by a freshly humorous allusion to lifting one’s self by one’s boot-straps.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
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