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TRADER
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Irregular inflected form: trader
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
Synonyms:
bargainer; dealer; monger; trader
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("trader" is a kind of...):
merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trader"):
art dealer (a dealer in works of art requiring esthetic evaluation)
barterer (a trader who exchanges goods and not money)
bibliopole; bibliopolist (a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books))
cheesemonger (someone who sells cheese)
barrow-boy; barrow-man; costermonger (a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow)
cutler (a dealer in cutlery)
draper (a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods))
fence (a dealer in stolen property)
fishmonger; fishwife (someone who sells fish)
horse trader (a hard bargainer)
hardwareman; ironmonger (someone who sells hardware)
mercer (a dealer in textiles (especially silks))
seedman; seedsman (a dealer in seeds)
slop-seller; slopseller (a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing)
stamp dealer (a dealer in stamps (whose customers are stamp collectors))
stock trader (someone who buys and sells stock shares)
Derivation:
trade (engage in the trade of)
Context examples:
Jones, who is chief trader, looked at me, and he laughed. He made great laughter, and would not give payment.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
But merchants and traders are cowardly rulers at best; they grunt and grub all their days in the trough of money-getting, and I have swung back to aristocracy, if you please.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
You might be a trader or stockbroker, or if you are a producer working in TV, you might be charged with the task of presenting financial trends clearly to the public.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“When Em'ly got strong again,” said Mr. Peggotty, after another short interval of silence, “she cast about to leave that good young creetur, and get to her own country. The husband was come home, then; and the two together put her aboard a small trader bound to Leghorn, and from that to France. She had a little money, but it was less than little as they would take for all they done. I'm a'most glad on it, though they was so poor! What they done, is laid up wheer neither moth or rust doth corrupt, and wheer thieves do not break through nor steal. Mas'r Davy, it'll outlast all the treasure in the wureld.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“He is a bloody robber,” said the trader, curtly, “and I wish I saw him kicking at the end of a halter.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"The debt of Jones, who is chief trader," came the answer. "Such is the law of travel in a strange country."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He would entertain there the factor of Taiohae, captains of wandering traders, and all the best of the South Pacific riffraff.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Bands of armed men clanked along the highway, and the few lines of laden mules which carried the merchandise of the trader were guarded by armed varlets, or by archers hired for the service.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There is a post there, filled with the goods of the white man, and a trader whose name is Jones. Likewise is there a white man's medicine man, what you call missionary.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Men, intelligent men, and not the gibbering nonentities I found you consorting with in that trader's den.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
