merchant

Significado

Noun

1. A person who traffics in commodities for profit.
2. The owner or operator of a retail business.
3. A trading vessel; a merchantman.
4. (informal) Someone who is noted for a stated type of activity or behaviour.
5. (obsolete) A supercargo.

Verb

As a resident of a region, to buy goods from a non-resident and sell them to another non-resident.

Con guión como

mer‧chant

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈmɝt͡ʃənt/

Etimología

From Middle English marchaunt, from Anglo-Norman marchaunt, from mercans, from the verb mercor (“I trade, deal, sell”).

Oraciones

That day , the merchant gave the boy permission to build the display .

Ese día, el comerciante le dio permiso al niño para construir la pantalla.

He waited patiently for the merchant to awaken and open the shop .

Esperó pacientemente que el comerciante despertara y abra la tienda.

Generally adapted from passenger liners , they were larger than the German merchant raiders .

Generalmente adaptados de los revestimientos de pasajeros, eran más grandes que los Raiders comerciales alemanes.