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

And then there’s Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow — once a proud free trader, now just another guy huffing Trump fumes — saying, “Buying cheap goods is not a real prosperity.”

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Tai is considered a problem-solving pragmatist on trade policy, which can break down into an ideological divide between free traders and protectionists.

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Tai is considered a problem-solving pragmatist on trade policy, which often breaks down into an ideological divide between free traders and protectionists.

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A conventional free trader for most of his career, in office he has mostly embraced Trump’s China hawkishness.

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Administration players on China have been divided by factional feuding and irreconcilable policy goals, with security hawks and religious freedom crusaders butting heads with Wall Street advocates and free traders.

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