merchant
noun
a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
merchant-like
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a word derived from
merchant.
Example Sentences
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A wonderful deep man, to my certain knowledge, an’ wears a merchant-like coat an’ shiny hat working days an’ Sabbaths alike.
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
With merchant-like exactness, every tittle was reckoned up and shared.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852 by Robert Chambers
