How to use merchant in a sentence

Examples of merchant by meaning

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• I’ve heard merchants still use an abacus for adding things up in China.From the entry abacus
• Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.From the entry discount
• The merchant refused to travel in the region due to the ongoing banditry.From the entry banditry
• An upstanding merchant will exchange a faulty product.From the entry upstanding
• The merchant found gabardines with finer ribs sold better here.From the entry gabardine
• A merchant is carrying a large stock.From the entry carry
• Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.From the entry trust
• The ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.From the entry address
• His father had apprenticed him to a silk merchant.From the entry apprentice
• The merchants are the purveyors of fine selections.From the entry purveyor
• The suspect merchant ship has been arrested by customs officers.From the entry arrest
• The merchant receives a large invoice of goods.From the entry invoice
• The hunter gave the merchant twenty beaverskins for a gun.From the entry beaverskin
• The Tobacco Lords were a group of Scottish merchants and slave traders who in the 18th century made enormous fortunes by trading in tobacco.From the entry lord
• During August, clothes costing less than $75 are untaxed, to try to help the poor to buy clothes and the merchants to make money.From the entry untaxed
• On a merchant ship, Father Sinclair had to do safety drills every 10 days.2025 October 21, Rose George, “‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose”, in The Guardian. From the entry father
• My second fight against the big dosser Deontay Wilder, the biggest knockout merchant in boxing history.2020, Tyson Fury, The Furious Method: The Sunday Times bestselling guide to a healthier body & mind. From the entry knockout merchant
• The one example that relates to Berytan merchants comes from Puteoli in Italy.2019, Simone Paturel, “Roman Berytus”, in Jonathan M[ark] Hall, Jan Paul Crielaard, Benet Salway, editors, Baalbek-Heliopolis, the Bekaa…. From the entry Berytian
• Every soldier knows that “feather merchants” means civilians, but few know why it does.2016, Max Shulman, The Feather Merchants: A Novel. From the entry feather merchant
• Dominguans to accept the decree, the merchants described a revolution whose logic was universal and irrefutable.2016, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Michael Drexler, The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States: Histories, Textualities, Geographies…. From the entry St. Dominguan
• Festering antagonism between English and Hanseatic merchants was rooted in the principle of reciprocity.2015, Charles D. Stanton, “The German Hanse: Martial Merchants of the Baltic”, in Medieval Maritime Warfare, Barnsley, South Yorkshire…. From the entry Hansard
• Zeffirelli’s naturalistic sets, depicting a Latin Quarter peopled with crowds of Parisian streetfolk, revelers, merchants and children.2015 November 24, Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, “Review: Franco Zeffirelli's 'La Bohème' Revisits a Take on Love and Loss”, in New York Times. From the entry streetfolk
• Hey 'bantz' merchants, your patter is offensive and not even puerile enough to be considered comedy.2014 May 2, Daisy Buchanan, “My five-point plan to ban banter”, in The Guardian. From the entry bantz
• Jackson figured fat REMFs to be the worst kind of feather merchants.2014, James Hawkins, A Common Virtue: A Novel, page 61. From the entry feather merchant
• Urfa biber is uniquely delicious—it has a fruity, roasted flavor—and worth seeking out at specialty spice merchants.2014 April 15, Lucy Vaserfirer, Marinades: The Quick-Fix Way to Turn Everyday Food Into Exceptional Fare, with 400 Recipes, Houghton…. From the entry urfa biber
• Unfortunately, the Chinese merchants and noodlemen were already loyal to Wilcox's brands.2014, Heather Arndt Anderson, Portland: A Food Biography, page 83. From the entry noodleman
• In this, they resembled the alien merchant guilds and hanses of the medieval period.2011, Sheilagh Ogilvie, Institutions and European Trade, page 95. From the entry hanse
• WHITLEY Impressively cheekboned folk pop merchant has a knack with banter and hooks .2009 January 15, “Rock, Pop and Roots”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2009. From the entry cheekboned
• Merchants' discrimination on the basis of skin colour is a stereotype tax on Black Nova Scotians.2002, Elena Hannah, Swani Vethamany-Globus, Linda Paul, Women in the Canadian Academic Tundra: Challenging the Chill. From the entry stereotype tax
• The village grocer was "the only unfarming person and the only merchant in the village."2001, Bernard S. Phillips, Beyond Sociology's Tower of Babel, page 19. From the entry unfarming
• The merchant of mistrust dismisses these words as hyperbole and remains grim, sullen, fearful.2000 October, Brennan Manning, “The Way of Trust”, in Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin’s Path to God, [San Francisco, Calif.]…. From the entry happies
• The hoard evidently belonged to a merchant who was forced to hide it in an emergency.1998, Jonathan Karam Skaff, “Sasanian and Arab-Sasanian Silver Coins from Turfan: Their Relationship to International Trade and the Local…. From the entry Wu-ch'ia
• The cousins separated, and Nain Singh joined a caravan posing as a merchant.1995, Explorers & Discoverers, volume 2, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 753. From the entry summon
• "From thieving Arabs to Jewish grubbery, it had to be the daughter of a wheel merchant."1994, André Aciman, Out of Egypt: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, pages 75–76. From the entry grubbery
• Some of the great merchants in the Indies were creoles, but the majority were peninsulares.1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 131. From the entry creole
• He might have been drowned, along with fat Basil, that arrogant merchant, when the swanship broke apart.1983, Dikkon Eberhart, Paradise: A Novel, Stemmer House Pub, page 14. From the entry swanship
• In Hunan the Left Army was located at Ch’ang-te under a Ch’ang-te merchant named Ch’en Yu-lung.1976, Charlton M. Lewis, Prologue to the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation of Ideas and Institutions in Hunan Province, 1891-1907…. From the entry Ch'ang-te
• Yü San-sheng came from Lo-t’ien in Hupeh, and was the son of a merchant.1972, Colin P. Mackerras, The Rise of the Peking Opera 1770–1870, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 184. From the entry Lo-t'ien
• He was the son of a merchant of modest means from Huchow, Chekiang.1971, Mary Backus Rankin, Early Chinese Revolutionaries: Radical Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902-1911, Harvard University…. From the entry Huchow

Meaning of merchant

1. noun A person who traffics in commodities for profit.
2. noun The owner or operator of a retail business.
3. noun A trading vessel; a merchantman.

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• Merchant in Urdu

Questions about merchant in a sentence

How do you use merchant in a sentence?

Merchant is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I’ve heard merchants still use an abacus for adding things up in China.”

What is a short sentence with merchant?

“a merchanting service”

What does merchant mean?

Merchant means a person who traffics in commodities for profit.