free trader

or free-trad·er

noun

a person who advocates free trade.

Origin of free trader

First recorded in 1690–1700; free trade + -er¹

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Examples from the Web for free-trader

Contemporary Examples of free-trader

Bush, a free-trader going into his term, supported steel tariffs in his first year.
Michael Tomasky on Wimpy Mitt Romney’s Missing Backbone
Michael Tomasky
July 31, 2012

Historical Examples of free-trader

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 Sophisms
Frederic Bastiat
It was, indeed, I thought, worth while living to be a free-trader.
Tales of Our Coast
S. R. Crockett
M. Pillado is far from being a free-trader in the accepted English sense.
The Argentine as a Market
N. L. Watson
He built the first free-trader that was ever launched from Port Jackson.
The History of Margaret Catchpole
Richard Cobbold

British Dictionary definitions for free-trader

free-trader

noun

a person who supports or advocates free trade

archaic a smuggler or smuggling vessel

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