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horse-trader

horse-trader is the alternative spelling of horsetrader.

Meaning of horsetrader

Noun

horsetrader (plural horsetraders)

  1. (literally) A person who buys and sells horses, especially one who makes such transactions in a clever or skillful manner.
  2. (broadly, figuratively) One who is skillful in transacting or negotiating of any kind.
    • The three subordinates on whom President Roosevelt depends to win his Senate victories are Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, the bull-voiced, heavy-fisted field commander; Pat Harrison of Mississippi, the shrewd committee and cloakroom horsetrader; and James F. Byrnes of South...1937 February 22, “Judiciary: Visibility Poor”, in Time

Forms of horse-trader

pluralhorse-traders

Questions about horse-trader

What is horse-trader the alternative spelling of?
Horse-trader is the alternative spelling of horsetrader.

Words near horse-trader in the dictionary

  1. horse-radishes
  2. horse-shoe vetch
  3. horse-shoe vetches
  4. horse-stinger
  5. horse-stingers
  6. horse-trader
  7. horse-traders
  8. horse-trading
  9. horse-wain
  10. horse-wains
  11. horse-watcher

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horse-trader (page history and authors); horsetrader (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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