trader
noun
a person who trades; a merchant or businessperson.
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The clerks were paid by salary, and only a person who had served as a clerk could be promoted to a "chief tradership," and only a "chief trader" to a "chief factorship."
From Canada and the States by E. W. (Edward William) Watkin