free trader

Or free-trader

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

Even though Senate Majority Leader John Thune is a strident free-trader who, I assure you, thinks all of this is incredibly stupid, he’s whipping his conference against the resolution, arguing that the cartels—those sneaky devils—would shift their drug trafficking through Canada were the emergency declaration terminated.

From Slate

A historical snapshot of Sheinbaum — then a young scientist doing doctoral work at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California — shows her with fellow Mexican students protesting the presence at Stanford of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, an avid free-trader.

From Los Angeles Times

Milei is a passionate free-trader, and Argentina is a member of the South American trading bloc Mercosur, which also includes Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

From BBC

He will run for president as a national security hawk, a staunch social conservative, a free-trader and a fiscal conservative.

From New York Times

At an event with the World Bank president in February 2020, Yellen, a self-proclaimed free-trader, worried that a populist backlash was threatening the benefits of globalization and said that “the growth of trade that we have seen over the last 50 years in development of global supply chains has been one of the most important factors boosting growth all around the world.”

From New York Times