mercer
noun
a dealer in textile fabrics; dry-goods merchant.
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mercer
American
[mur-ser]
/ ˈmɜr sər /
noun
Chiefly British.
mercers
plural
Mercer
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British
/ ˈmɜːsə /
noun
mercer
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British
/ ˈmɜːsə /
noun
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Origin of mercer
1150–1200; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French mercier merchant, equivalent to merz merchandise (< Latin merx, accusative mercem ) + -ier -ier 2; see -er 2
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UConn: UConn, which beat mercer 83-38 in the first round, improves to 18-3 as a No. 2 seed and 29-2 all-time in the second round, where they last lost in 1992.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
One of them, the mercer William Caxton, saw the potential of this type of literature if circulated in print.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2011
A prosperous Bordeaux mercer has the misfortune to upset his gig in a ditch.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was born probably in 1422 or 1423, and further than this we know nothing of him till his apprenticeship to Robert Large, a London mercer.
From The Story of Books by Rawlings, Gertrude Burford
Now Peregrine's dame hath a free foot, and the mercer himself somewhat of a sulky brow.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.
“The Trump account is really a prefunding of a retirement account,” Bryan Strike, senior director of financial planning at Mercer Advisors, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
Glasgow singer Kerr Mercer opened up the Main Stage and later told BBC Scotland he had been so nervous that he forgot the words to his first song.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
The investigation published last week showed that global advisory firm Mercer has invested on Tuvalu's behalf in funds exposed to coal mining, gas exploration and the world's largest crude oil refinery.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
“That way, she’ll get used to … making a payment each month somewhere, but it will be saved up for her,” said Hughes, a senior wealth adviser at Mercer Advisors who is based in Minneapolis.
From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026
“It would be immoral not to fuse with Mercer in gratitude,” Iran said.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Garthwaite's designs were bought by the major mercers, woven by master weavers and worn by men and women of the highest rank.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2010
Under pressure from cotton mercers who protested that the Government's cotton holdings acted as a "cloud" over the market, the Federal Farm Board last week announced the coming of a cloudburst.
From Time Magazine Archive
The persons picked out for his new operators were as remarkable as the patent itself, being a most "miscellaneous rabble" of friars, grocers, mercers, and fishmongers!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac
And at the word we charged forward, shoulder to shoulder, and brushed those unmannerly mercers and barber-surgeons aside as a torrent the nettles that grow on its bank.
From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Reed, Talbot Baines
Here are mercers; here goldsmiths; here armourers; here glovers; here pepperers or grocers; and so forth.
From The History of London by Besant, Walter, Sir
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