free trader
or free-trad·er
- a person who advocates free trade.
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Origin of free trader
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Examples from the Web for free-trader
Contemporary Examples
Bush, a free-trader going into his term, supported steel tariffs in his first year.
Historical Examples
Probably in the world there was never less of a Free-Trader!
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVI. (of XXI.)Thomas Carlyle
We are the agents of England, they say, because some of us employ the words meeting and free-trader!
Economic SophismsFrederic Bastiat
It was, indeed, I thought, worth while living to be a free-trader.
Tales of Our CoastS. R. Crockett
M. Pillado is far from being a free-trader in the accepted English sense.
The Argentine as a MarketN. L. Watson
He built the first free-trader that was ever launched from Port Jackson.
The History of Margaret CatchpoleRichard Cobbold
free-trader
- a person who supports or advocates free trade
- archaic a smuggler or smuggling vessel
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