Definition of merchant in English:

merchant

noun ˈməːtʃ(ə)ntˈmərtʃənt

1A person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying goods to a particular trade.
商人；（尤指外贸）批发商；供应商
a builders' merchant
建材供应商。
a tea merchant
茶叶批发商。
Example sentencesExamples
- One road sells cane-ware, another has scrap merchants trading in steel and iron, wholesale merchants who deal in old cloth.
- In the printing industry, for example, very large printers obtain their inks direct from manufacturers, while smaller printers tend to rely on wholesale merchants.
- The port was transported to the port merchants' warehouses in Oporto where it sat for years, sometimes decades, until the brandy and wine had integrated fully.
- Some of the well-known family businesses include timber merchants and builders' providers the McMahon Group.
- As American pioneers headed westward, scoundrels occasionally would present forged letters of credit to wholesale merchants in larger towns.
- Many of the nation's shoppers also behave online a lot like they would at the local mall: buying the same kinds of products from the same merchants.
- The United States seeks contracts with regional industries and merchants for supplies, services, facilities, and labor to support bases.
- Though a number of companies and merchants traded with different places, the Netherlands gradually predominated, particularly for the export of cloth.
- Consumers are turning away from traditional department stores and shopping more at mass merchants, discounters and warehouse marts.
- The Chinese occupied the position of intermediaries between foreign western merchants and the domestic market.
- On the Chinese side, the Canton authorities limited trade with the foreign merchants to a group of Chinese merchant houses, the Hongs, nominally thirteen in number.
- Before emigrating he worked in his father's business of wholesale yeast merchants in Stricklandgate.
- For merchants selling children's products, though, a dab of color and creativity can certainly boost traffic.
- It was then the business of FT Burley & Son, wholesale fruit merchants and ‘banana specialists’, and boasted a ripening room.
- Use the same judgment and common sense with internet, phone or mail-order merchants that you use in shops.
- More than 80 merchants sell fresh produce, meat, fish, flowers, breads, crafts, books and clothing.
- This will not rely on passing trade and are mainly sold wholesale to other merchants.
- The specialists simply have to intensify their focus to stay alive, offering products and services that mass merchants cannot.
- They acquire their goods on consignment from wholesale merchants in the larger towns, then carry them on the train into the countryside.
- Producers and merchants trading in pine honey risk confiscation of their goods if they put it on the market with this trade mark.
1. 1.1North American A retail trader.
  〈主北美〉零售商；零售店店主
  the credit cards are accepted by 10 million merchants worldwide
  全世界有1，000万个零售商接受这些信用卡。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Powerless though the Serlians may be politically, they are honest merchants and prolific traders.
  This is the perfect location for this show because William Hadwen was a merchant who retailed silver and other goods on Nantucket during the early nineteenth century.
  For days upon days, merchants and traders had brought various bolts and pieces of cloth for Erial and Madame to consider.
  If so, then why have men traders, merchants and entrepreneurs been assumed to reside within the public?
  Inside the walls were the rest, the ones who fell into the middle, the lower merchants, traders, dealers, hawkers, along with business of all kinds crammed into the walls.
  Taking a deep breath, Julian pressed on through the Zetapol market, where merchants and traders competed in hollering.
  The majority of Indo-Fijians who left following the coup were shop owners and other retail merchants and bankers.
  In the early days of the late 1990s, pioneer online merchants fruitlessly spent millions of dollars on TV and radio ads aimed at the mass market.
  Chinese merchants and traders arrived and settled in the ninth century A.D.
  Most of these marketing efforts were directed toward retail merchants.
  Millions of misguided merchants paying their hardearned out to deluded ‘designers’ so that they too can join the cyberspace community.
  New markets could also be found among those profiting most from industrialisation, not just manufacturers, but traders, merchants and bankers.
  All Pro projects that the products will bring in more than $8-million in retail sales to area merchants.
  I think retail merchants have to make that decision for themselves.
  One of the town's biggest retail merchants wants Wal-Mart to move in.
  He was succeeded by his uncle Malarangiah, who encouraged traders and merchants from different parts of India to settle in Bangalore.
  Its merchant network includes 11.7 million merchants and spans 190 countries and territories.
  It is obvious that much depends upon the psychology of the merchants and other traders, and particularly on their expectations as to the course of markets.
  They brushed past merchants and traders and came to the bridge, where a surly-looking guard with a grey-tipped beard stood.
  In the blink of an eye, her ring collections jetted from the showrooms into the gleaming display cases of the world class retail merchants like Bloomingdales.
  Synonyms
  trader, dealer, trafficker, wholesaler, broker, agent, seller, buyer, buyer and seller, salesman/saleswoman/salesperson, vendor, retailer, shopkeeper, tradesman, distributor, representative, commercial traveller, marketer, marketeer, pedlar, hawker
  magnate, mogul, baron
2. 1.2 A person who deals in something unpleasant.
  （引起反感的东西的）经营者，贩卖者；贩子
  a merchant of death
  死亡贩子。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They are not sell-out merchants that deal to their civilization, their culture, in the way that these people are doing in allowing foreigners to colonise us from without.
  This movie vividly reminds us of how the merchants of death ply their trade.
  I recommend not using the bounce feature, as it's not as yet convincing enough to fool the spam merchants.
  Not only did merchants of death profit from war, they instigated it at every opportunity.
  They won't be troubled by memories of widows and orphans and scattered body parts, but they must fear that their roles as merchants of death might be rumbled.
  It is not hard to explain the inability of the world establishment to deal more effectively with these merchants of death.
  To allow merchants of terror to change Spain would be a disservice to the memories of those who perished; Spanish culture and freedom must always be celebrated.
  But that was of no concern to the merchants of death.
  That, of course, is precisely why the violence is being ratcheted up - because the stakes for the corrupt merchants of death are so enormous.
  Having been through this whole process a bunch of times, I had no illusions that I was dealing with rip-off merchants.
  The merchants of death are adept at using marketing to undermine the good influence of parents.
  Neither these merchants of death nor the government saw any reason to stop the fair in the wake of last week's horror in New York.
  It took more than a year and half before it decided it could no longer deal with him, that he was still merchant of terror; that his word was meaningless.
  That's a mighty weak basis on which to call us frauds, liars, and smear merchants.
  Some of these merchants of death even have the audacity to take their patients' temperatures, measure blood pressure, and use a stethoscope.
  The corrupt politicians and immoral merchants must be dealt with sternly according to the full extent of the law in order to prove that this society is a place where honest citizens can be rewarded.
  You have to wonder about the horrific irony of the death merchant confronting the loss of his own son.
  The man is a merchant of death and, despite his efforts to distance himself, he knows that what he is doing is wrong.
  Marching against death merchants at the DSEi arms fair earlier this year (Pic: Guy Smallman)
  I cannot tell you how harsh I would be if I were a judge, sentencing these drug dealers, these death merchants.
3. 1.3 (in historical contexts) a person involved in trade or commerce.
  （尤指历史用语）经商者
  prosperous merchants and clothiers had established a middle class
  富裕的经销商和服装商形成了中间阶层。
  Example sentencesExamples
  See the ancient history of merchants for a continuation of this advice, as applied to the art of selling wine.
  When King James continued his slide to absolutism… even the larger merchants and commercial landowners in England became alarmed.
  Bristol poet, Thomas Rowley, a monk and friend of William Canynge, a historical Bristol merchant.
  It was founded high on a series of hills by prosperous Saxon merchants in the Middle Ages.
  He also initiated trade between the Franks and the Muslims and made commercial pacts with the merchants of Venice who traded with both Byzantium and Islam.
  Many of them were prosperous merchants and, possible, noblemen.
  Association football, founded in 1863, was mostly spread by the merchants and clerks of British commerce and by the engineers who built the European and South American railways.
  Growing overseas commerce with colonies stimulated merchants to provide ships, as well as goods for expanding settler societies.
  In virtue of the abundant salt produced in Shanxi, the earliest Shanxi merchants arrived on the historical stage.
  He came from a family of prosperous silk merchants and was chairman of the textile firm Courtaulds Ltd. from 1921 to 1946.
  When Norwood, a prosperous bond merchant, built the house, Fourteenth Street was at the northernmost edge of development on Manhattan Island.
  The study day includes lectures on the links between Sheba and Axum, Arab merchants of the Middle Ages and Navigation and Commerce from Aden.
  A very well off and prosperous merchant, to be sure, but my ancestors had to work for the respect my father has now.
  He says the doom merchants' prophecies should be put in context.
  Thus, the potential of global exposure to global communication, the dream of every merchant in history, has arrived.
  The Letter of Law emphasized the importance of facilitating commerce and assisting merchants to develop their trading activities.
  Thus, playing the Nubians allowed me to get access to commerce advances early, letting me build caravans and merchants to generate enough wealth for my endeavors.
  Piero della Francesca, who came from a family of fairly prosperous merchants, is recognised as one of the most important painters of the Renaissance.
  Dutch merchants and Dutch commercial capital poured into Londen after 1690 and went to play an important role in the re-export trade between England and the Continent.
  In the terror which followed, the wealth of the prosperous merchants made them a particular target, and axe, rope, and fire consumed the natural leaders of Dutch society.
2derogatory, informal usually with modifier A person who has a liking for a particular activity.
〈非正式，主贬〉热衷者
his driver was no speed merchant
他的司机绝不热衷于超速驾驶。
Example sentencesExamples
- I have only heard what Jimmy told me, which was told to him by Lawrence, the Champion embellisher wind-up merchant - he spread it round the neighbourhood we were lost in the Maldives.
- I work in internet advertising (but not in sales, I have my pride) so sometimes the spam merchant techniques to grab people's attention will perk my interest.
- Jose has been enjoying the build-up to this game and has comfortably added to his reputation as European football's best wind-up merchant.
- In a masterstroke of casting, He plays Vanya as a bored and disappointed man who entertains himself by playing the Glasgow wind-up merchant.
- He can expect to find Sampras, the ultimate serve and volley merchant, claiming a position netside with the same sort of voracity with which a German holidaymaker stakes his claim poolside.
- Come on out, you fuzzy-headed wind-up merchant.
- Happy to slug it out from the baseline, he is happiest coming in to the net and combines the booming serve with the delicate touch of a true serve and volley merchant.
- The play will run from March 27 to April 3 and will tell the story of Vincent, a professional suicide merchant, and the strange situation in which he finds himself.
- A rarity from the archives, this solo album was recorded for the Japanese market a quarter of a century ago, when he was almost as well known as the thinking person's funk merchant as a straightahead pianist.
- Mr Adams is no agitprop merchant; his music would be deeply boring if he was.
- The diary's favourite balls-up merchant is still Danny, though.
- It is the perfect watch for a well-honed style merchant on sinister covert missions.

adjective ˈməːtʃ(ə)ntˈmərtʃənt

1attributive (in historical contexts) relating to merchants or commerce.
（尤指历史用语）经商者
the growth of the merchant classes
商人阶层的发展。
Example sentencesExamples
- Born in late medieval Italy, Francis repudiated his life among the wealthy merchant class to espouse to himself Lady Poverty and live as a wandering begging friar.
- However, the lower orders turned against the merchant class and demanded political and social changes that were in fact, if not in name, democratic.
- At this stage in history, the merchant class, desperate for money to finance their adventures, struggled with the monopoly of the moneylenders and overcame it.
- The revolution he envisioned would be accomplished through the cooperation of lower ranking samurai and men from the peasant and merchant classes.
- In the end, it will be commerce and the merchant class that will provide, and they will have to go it alone, without the help of superpowers.
- Farmers originally settled the area in the north of Manhattan, then came prominent white families and then the white merchant class.
- While quarto publications were within the reach of many of London's merchant class, the publication of the First Folio placed the authoritative works of Shakespeare in the hands of the few.
- During those years in north-central Italy a new merchant class was forming (to which Francis belonged).
- They had the support of the merchant class, the whites and the rich.
- They were timber-panelled inside and were the fairly modest residences of the trading and merchant classes.
- Was it some subtle dig at the disgraceful standards of literacy among the merchant classes of 16th-century Venice?
- His sympathies to socialism were further rebellion against his family background from the merchant class of Manchester.
- Along with Westerners, the Chinese merchant class dominated the economy in the nineteenth century, especially with the exportation of rice.
- Tulips became a status symbol - and wealthy Dutch and European aristocrats and newly-wealthy merchant classes had to have them!
- More attention was paid to the removal of stone than to the finished product, and thus, a rising merchant class replaced the Middletown school of gravestone carvers.
- Calls for western-style reforms tend to be confined to the merchant classes and some members of the existing establishment.
- Toward the left foreground are the small yellow houses of the common people; note the red roofs of the merchant class, clustered around the open bazaar.
- The people who benefited most, economically, were the merchant class and slightly wealthier farmers.
- The expansion of the merchant classes was already a feature of life in the 15th century, and by the 16th it had become a phenomenon.
- Contrary to what Maria was expecting, it wasn't covered in gold and fine silk but was more like the common ones used by the merchant class.
1. 1.1 (of ships, sailors, or shipping activity) involved with commerce rather than military activity.
  （船，水手，航运）从事商业的
  a merchant seaman
  商船船员。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In fact, foreign sailors and merchant seamen were the first to spread the myth of Kobe beef back in the early nineteenth century.
  The English were informed of the Spanish movements and quickly assembled a fleet of mostly merchant ships.
  The rest of his young adulthood became a quest for financial security, and he shipped out as a merchant sailor.
  During filming, the ship was called to a real-life drama when a Greek merchant ship caught fire, making the ship safe and fielding nine bravery awards into the bargain.
  As early as the fourteenth century Europeans had suspected that rats spread the plague from quarantined merchant ships to the port cities.
  Nearly 3,000 British sailors and merchant seamen lost their lives on the convoys.
  The two larger ships that dominated the center of the formation were clearly galleons: armed merchant ships.
  When he sails, he normally sails as a merchant sailor, because he is paid and has no responsibility.
  Built of English oak and Cornish elm, they are traditionally designed and locally built rowing boats originally used to deliver pilots to incoming merchant ships.
  At twelve years of age, Verne ran off to be a cabin boy on a merchant ship, thinking he was going to have an adventure.
  Most of the pirates were on the merchant ship, and the good merchant sailors were greatly outnumbered.
  Not only did warships have to be built in Australia but also repaired, merchant ships were also converted for war use.
  Their success in picking off merchant ships proved very useful.
  Aside from building railway carriages he also worked on merchant ships for the American cargo fleet.
  As well as being the senior ensign of the King's ships, the red ensign was also worn by merchant ships.
  Summer runs were deemed too risky, because foul winter weather provided far better cover for slow-moving merchant ships.
  She gave protection to the merchant ships and sailors, and gave those ashore confidence that the vital supplies would always get through under her watchful eye.
  The fleet of merchant ships was as busy as Rome readying for war.
  Chen calculated an average of 50 seamen lose their lives and another 50 disappear without trace at sea each year aboard merchant ships and fishing boats.
  During those years, she had seen many wounded naval officers and merchant sailors.
  Synonyms
  commercial, trade, trading, business, merchant, sales

Origin

Middle English: from Old French marchant, based on Latin mercari 'to trade', from merx, merc- 'merchandise'.

Definition of merchant in US English:

merchant

nounˈmərCHəntˈmərtʃənt

1A person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchandise to a particular trade.
商人；（尤指外贸）批发商；供应商
a tea merchant
茶叶批发商。
the area's leading timber merchant
Example sentencesExamples
- Many of the nation's shoppers also behave online a lot like they would at the local mall: buying the same kinds of products from the same merchants.
- The Chinese occupied the position of intermediaries between foreign western merchants and the domestic market.
- Producers and merchants trading in pine honey risk confiscation of their goods if they put it on the market with this trade mark.
- This will not rely on passing trade and are mainly sold wholesale to other merchants.
- For merchants selling children's products, though, a dab of color and creativity can certainly boost traffic.
- The port was transported to the port merchants' warehouses in Oporto where it sat for years, sometimes decades, until the brandy and wine had integrated fully.
- One road sells cane-ware, another has scrap merchants trading in steel and iron, wholesale merchants who deal in old cloth.
- More than 80 merchants sell fresh produce, meat, fish, flowers, breads, crafts, books and clothing.
- The specialists simply have to intensify their focus to stay alive, offering products and services that mass merchants cannot.
- It was then the business of FT Burley & Son, wholesale fruit merchants and ‘banana specialists’, and boasted a ripening room.
- In the printing industry, for example, very large printers obtain their inks direct from manufacturers, while smaller printers tend to rely on wholesale merchants.
- Before emigrating he worked in his father's business of wholesale yeast merchants in Stricklandgate.
- As American pioneers headed westward, scoundrels occasionally would present forged letters of credit to wholesale merchants in larger towns.
- On the Chinese side, the Canton authorities limited trade with the foreign merchants to a group of Chinese merchant houses, the Hongs, nominally thirteen in number.
- Though a number of companies and merchants traded with different places, the Netherlands gradually predominated, particularly for the export of cloth.
- The United States seeks contracts with regional industries and merchants for supplies, services, facilities, and labor to support bases.
- Consumers are turning away from traditional department stores and shopping more at mass merchants, discounters and warehouse marts.
- Some of the well-known family businesses include timber merchants and builders' providers the McMahon Group.
- Use the same judgment and common sense with internet, phone or mail-order merchants that you use in shops.
- They acquire their goods on consignment from wholesale merchants in the larger towns, then carry them on the train into the countryside.
1. 1.1North American A retail trader; a store owner.
  〈主北美〉零售商；零售店店主
  the credit cards are accepted by 10 million merchants worldwide
  全世界有1，000万个零售商接受这些信用卡。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Most of these marketing efforts were directed toward retail merchants.
  This is the perfect location for this show because William Hadwen was a merchant who retailed silver and other goods on Nantucket during the early nineteenth century.
  They brushed past merchants and traders and came to the bridge, where a surly-looking guard with a grey-tipped beard stood.
  It is obvious that much depends upon the psychology of the merchants and other traders, and particularly on their expectations as to the course of markets.
  Inside the walls were the rest, the ones who fell into the middle, the lower merchants, traders, dealers, hawkers, along with business of all kinds crammed into the walls.
  I think retail merchants have to make that decision for themselves.
  If so, then why have men traders, merchants and entrepreneurs been assumed to reside within the public?
  He was succeeded by his uncle Malarangiah, who encouraged traders and merchants from different parts of India to settle in Bangalore.
  One of the town's biggest retail merchants wants Wal-Mart to move in.
  All Pro projects that the products will bring in more than $8-million in retail sales to area merchants.
  Taking a deep breath, Julian pressed on through the Zetapol market, where merchants and traders competed in hollering.
  Powerless though the Serlians may be politically, they are honest merchants and prolific traders.
  In the blink of an eye, her ring collections jetted from the showrooms into the gleaming display cases of the world class retail merchants like Bloomingdales.
  For days upon days, merchants and traders had brought various bolts and pieces of cloth for Erial and Madame to consider.
  Chinese merchants and traders arrived and settled in the ninth century A.D.
  The majority of Indo-Fijians who left following the coup were shop owners and other retail merchants and bankers.
  In the early days of the late 1990s, pioneer online merchants fruitlessly spent millions of dollars on TV and radio ads aimed at the mass market.
  New markets could also be found among those profiting most from industrialisation, not just manufacturers, but traders, merchants and bankers.
  Its merchant network includes 11.7 million merchants and spans 190 countries and territories.
  Millions of misguided merchants paying their hardearned out to deluded ‘designers’ so that they too can join the cyberspace community.
  Synonyms
  trader, dealer, trafficker, wholesaler, broker, agent, seller, buyer, buyer and seller, salesman, salesperson, saleswoman, vendor, retailer, shopkeeper, tradesman, distributor, representative, commercial traveller, marketer, marketeer, pedlar, hawker
2. 1.2 (in historical contexts) a person involved in trade or commerce.
  （尤指历史用语）经商者
  prosperous merchants and clothiers had established a middle class
  富裕的经销商和服装商形成了中间阶层。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He came from a family of prosperous silk merchants and was chairman of the textile firm Courtaulds Ltd. from 1921 to 1946.
  A very well off and prosperous merchant, to be sure, but my ancestors had to work for the respect my father has now.
  He also initiated trade between the Franks and the Muslims and made commercial pacts with the merchants of Venice who traded with both Byzantium and Islam.
  Association football, founded in 1863, was mostly spread by the merchants and clerks of British commerce and by the engineers who built the European and South American railways.
  The Letter of Law emphasized the importance of facilitating commerce and assisting merchants to develop their trading activities.
  Thus, the potential of global exposure to global communication, the dream of every merchant in history, has arrived.
  When King James continued his slide to absolutism… even the larger merchants and commercial landowners in England became alarmed.
  In virtue of the abundant salt produced in Shanxi, the earliest Shanxi merchants arrived on the historical stage.
  Bristol poet, Thomas Rowley, a monk and friend of William Canynge, a historical Bristol merchant.
  Dutch merchants and Dutch commercial capital poured into Londen after 1690 and went to play an important role in the re-export trade between England and the Continent.
  When Norwood, a prosperous bond merchant, built the house, Fourteenth Street was at the northernmost edge of development on Manhattan Island.
  The study day includes lectures on the links between Sheba and Axum, Arab merchants of the Middle Ages and Navigation and Commerce from Aden.
  He says the doom merchants' prophecies should be put in context.
  Piero della Francesca, who came from a family of fairly prosperous merchants, is recognised as one of the most important painters of the Renaissance.
  Thus, playing the Nubians allowed me to get access to commerce advances early, letting me build caravans and merchants to generate enough wealth for my endeavors.
  See the ancient history of merchants for a continuation of this advice, as applied to the art of selling wine.
  Many of them were prosperous merchants and, possible, noblemen.
  It was founded high on a series of hills by prosperous Saxon merchants in the Middle Ages.
  Growing overseas commerce with colonies stimulated merchants to provide ships, as well as goods for expanding settler societies.
  In the terror which followed, the wealth of the prosperous merchants made them a particular target, and axe, rope, and fire consumed the natural leaders of Dutch society.
2derogatory, informal usually with modifier A person with a partiality or aptitude for a particular activity or viewpoint.
〈非正式，主贬〉热衷者
his driver was no speed merchant
他的司机绝不热衷于超速驾驶。
a merchant of death
死亡贩子。
Example sentencesExamples
- I have only heard what Jimmy told me, which was told to him by Lawrence, the Champion embellisher wind-up merchant - he spread it round the neighbourhood we were lost in the Maldives.
- Happy to slug it out from the baseline, he is happiest coming in to the net and combines the booming serve with the delicate touch of a true serve and volley merchant.
- A rarity from the archives, this solo album was recorded for the Japanese market a quarter of a century ago, when he was almost as well known as the thinking person's funk merchant as a straightahead pianist.
- He can expect to find Sampras, the ultimate serve and volley merchant, claiming a position netside with the same sort of voracity with which a German holidaymaker stakes his claim poolside.
- In a masterstroke of casting, He plays Vanya as a bored and disappointed man who entertains himself by playing the Glasgow wind-up merchant.
- The play will run from March 27 to April 3 and will tell the story of Vincent, a professional suicide merchant, and the strange situation in which he finds himself.
- Come on out, you fuzzy-headed wind-up merchant.
- I work in internet advertising (but not in sales, I have my pride) so sometimes the spam merchant techniques to grab people's attention will perk my interest.
- Mr Adams is no agitprop merchant; his music would be deeply boring if he was.
- The diary's favourite balls-up merchant is still Danny, though.
- It is the perfect watch for a well-honed style merchant on sinister covert missions.
- Jose has been enjoying the build-up to this game and has comfortably added to his reputation as European football's best wind-up merchant.

adjectiveˈmərCHəntˈmərtʃənt

1attributive Relating to merchants, trade, or commerce.
商人的；贸易的，商业的
the growth of the merchant classes
商人阶层的发展。
Example sentencesExamples
- The revolution he envisioned would be accomplished through the cooperation of lower ranking samurai and men from the peasant and merchant classes.
- Tulips became a status symbol - and wealthy Dutch and European aristocrats and newly-wealthy merchant classes had to have them!
- Contrary to what Maria was expecting, it wasn't covered in gold and fine silk but was more like the common ones used by the merchant class.
- Was it some subtle dig at the disgraceful standards of literacy among the merchant classes of 16th-century Venice?
- While quarto publications were within the reach of many of London's merchant class, the publication of the First Folio placed the authoritative works of Shakespeare in the hands of the few.
- Farmers originally settled the area in the north of Manhattan, then came prominent white families and then the white merchant class.
- At this stage in history, the merchant class, desperate for money to finance their adventures, struggled with the monopoly of the moneylenders and overcame it.
- Calls for western-style reforms tend to be confined to the merchant classes and some members of the existing establishment.
- During those years in north-central Italy a new merchant class was forming (to which Francis belonged).
- Born in late medieval Italy, Francis repudiated his life among the wealthy merchant class to espouse to himself Lady Poverty and live as a wandering begging friar.
- However, the lower orders turned against the merchant class and demanded political and social changes that were in fact, if not in name, democratic.
- More attention was paid to the removal of stone than to the finished product, and thus, a rising merchant class replaced the Middletown school of gravestone carvers.
- The people who benefited most, economically, were the merchant class and slightly wealthier farmers.
- They had the support of the merchant class, the whites and the rich.
- They were timber-panelled inside and were the fairly modest residences of the trading and merchant classes.
- Toward the left foreground are the small yellow houses of the common people; note the red roofs of the merchant class, clustered around the open bazaar.
- Along with Westerners, the Chinese merchant class dominated the economy in the nineteenth century, especially with the exportation of rice.
- In the end, it will be commerce and the merchant class that will provide, and they will have to go it alone, without the help of superpowers.
- The expansion of the merchant classes was already a feature of life in the 15th century, and by the 16th it had become a phenomenon.
- His sympathies to socialism were further rebellion against his family background from the merchant class of Manchester.
1. 1.1 (of ships, sailors, or shipping activity) involved with commerce rather than military activity.
  （船，水手，航运）从事商业的
  a merchant seaman
  商船船员。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She gave protection to the merchant ships and sailors, and gave those ashore confidence that the vital supplies would always get through under her watchful eye.
  Not only did warships have to be built in Australia but also repaired, merchant ships were also converted for war use.
  During filming, the ship was called to a real-life drama when a Greek merchant ship caught fire, making the ship safe and fielding nine bravery awards into the bargain.
  As early as the fourteenth century Europeans had suspected that rats spread the plague from quarantined merchant ships to the port cities.
  Built of English oak and Cornish elm, they are traditionally designed and locally built rowing boats originally used to deliver pilots to incoming merchant ships.
  At twelve years of age, Verne ran off to be a cabin boy on a merchant ship, thinking he was going to have an adventure.
  Most of the pirates were on the merchant ship, and the good merchant sailors were greatly outnumbered.
  As well as being the senior ensign of the King's ships, the red ensign was also worn by merchant ships.
  The two larger ships that dominated the center of the formation were clearly galleons: armed merchant ships.
  When he sails, he normally sails as a merchant sailor, because he is paid and has no responsibility.
  The rest of his young adulthood became a quest for financial security, and he shipped out as a merchant sailor.
  Summer runs were deemed too risky, because foul winter weather provided far better cover for slow-moving merchant ships.
  Their success in picking off merchant ships proved very useful.
  During those years, she had seen many wounded naval officers and merchant sailors.
  Aside from building railway carriages he also worked on merchant ships for the American cargo fleet.
  The fleet of merchant ships was as busy as Rome readying for war.
  Chen calculated an average of 50 seamen lose their lives and another 50 disappear without trace at sea each year aboard merchant ships and fishing boats.
  The English were informed of the Spanish movements and quickly assembled a fleet of mostly merchant ships.
  Nearly 3,000 British sailors and merchant seamen lost their lives on the convoys.
  In fact, foreign sailors and merchant seamen were the first to spread the myth of Kobe beef back in the early nineteenth century.
  Synonyms
  commercial, trade, trading, business, merchant, sales

Origin

Middle English: from Old French marchant, based on Latin mercari ‘to trade’, from merx, merc- ‘merchandise’.

单词	merchant
释义	Definition of merchant in English: merchant noun ˈməːtʃ(ə)ntˈmərtʃənt 1A person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying goods to a particular trade. 商人；（尤指外贸）批发商；供应商 a builders' merchant 建材供应商。 a tea merchant 茶叶批发商。 Example sentencesExamples One road sells cane-ware, another has scrap merchants trading in steel and iron, wholesale merchants who deal in old cloth. In the printing industry, for example, very large printers obtain their inks direct from manufacturers, while smaller printers tend to rely on wholesale merchants. The port was transported to the port merchants' warehouses in Oporto where it sat for years, sometimes decades, until the brandy and wine had integrated fully. Some of the well-known family businesses include timber merchants and builders' providers the McMahon Group. As American pioneers headed westward, scoundrels occasionally would present forged letters of credit to wholesale merchants in larger towns. Many of the nation's shoppers also behave online a lot like they would at the local mall: buying the same kinds of products from the same merchants. The United States seeks contracts with regional industries and merchants for supplies, services, facilities, and labor to support bases. Though a number of companies and merchants traded with different places, the Netherlands gradually predominated, particularly for the export of cloth. Consumers are turning away from traditional department stores and shopping more at mass merchants, discounters and warehouse marts. The Chinese occupied the position of intermediaries between foreign western merchants and the domestic market. On the Chinese side, the Canton authorities limited trade with the foreign merchants to a group of Chinese merchant houses, the Hongs, nominally thirteen in number. Before emigrating he worked in his father's business of wholesale yeast merchants in Stricklandgate. For merchants selling children's products, though, a dab of color and creativity can certainly boost traffic. It was then the business of FT Burley & Son, wholesale fruit merchants and ‘banana specialists’, and boasted a ripening room. Use the same judgment and common sense with internet, phone or mail-order merchants that you use in shops. More than 80 merchants sell fresh produce, meat, fish, flowers, breads, crafts, books and clothing. This will not rely on passing trade and are mainly sold wholesale to other merchants. The specialists simply have to intensify their focus to stay alive, offering products and services that mass merchants cannot. They acquire their goods on consignment from wholesale merchants in the larger towns, then carry them on the train into the countryside. Producers and merchants trading in pine honey risk confiscation of their goods if they put it on the market with this trade mark. 1.1North American A retail trader. 〈主北美〉零售商；零售店店主 the credit cards are accepted by 10 million merchants worldwide 全世界有1，000万个零售商接受这些信用卡。 Example sentencesExamples Powerless though the Serlians may be politically, they are honest merchants and prolific traders. This is the perfect location for this show because William Hadwen was a merchant who retailed silver and other goods on Nantucket during the early nineteenth century. For days upon days, merchants and traders had brought various bolts and pieces of cloth for Erial and Madame to consider. If so, then why have men traders, merchants and entrepreneurs been assumed to reside within the public? Inside the walls were the rest, the ones who fell into the middle, the lower merchants, traders, dealers, hawkers, along with business of all kinds crammed into the walls. Taking a deep breath, Julian pressed on through the Zetapol market, where merchants and traders competed in hollering. The majority of Indo-Fijians who left following the coup were shop owners and other retail merchants and bankers. In the early days of the late 1990s, pioneer online merchants fruitlessly spent millions of dollars on TV and radio ads aimed at the mass market. Chinese merchants and traders arrived and settled in the ninth century A.D. Most of these marketing efforts were directed toward retail merchants. Millions of misguided merchants paying their hardearned out to deluded ‘designers’ so that they too can join the cyberspace community. New markets could also be found among those profiting most from industrialisation, not just manufacturers, but traders, merchants and bankers. All Pro projects that the products will bring in more than $8-million in retail sales to area merchants. I think retail merchants have to make that decision for themselves. One of the town's biggest retail merchants wants Wal-Mart to move in. He was succeeded by his uncle Malarangiah, who encouraged traders and merchants from different parts of India to settle in Bangalore. Its merchant network includes 11.7 million merchants and spans 190 countries and territories. It is obvious that much depends upon the psychology of the merchants and other traders, and particularly on their expectations as to the course of markets. They brushed past merchants and traders and came to the bridge, where a surly-looking guard with a grey-tipped beard stood. In the blink of an eye, her ring collections jetted from the showrooms into the gleaming display cases of the world class retail merchants like Bloomingdales. Synonyms trader, dealer, trafficker, wholesaler, broker, agent, seller, buyer, buyer and seller, salesman/saleswoman/salesperson, vendor, retailer, shopkeeper, tradesman, distributor, representative, commercial traveller, marketer, marketeer, pedlar, hawker magnate, mogul, baron 1.2 A person who deals in something unpleasant. （引起反感的东西的）经营者，贩卖者；贩子 a merchant of death 死亡贩子。 Example sentencesExamples They are not sell-out merchants that deal to their civilization, their culture, in the way that these people are doing in allowing foreigners to colonise us from without. This movie vividly reminds us of how the merchants of death ply their trade. I recommend not using the bounce feature, as it's not as yet convincing enough to fool the spam merchants. Not only did merchants of death profit from war, they instigated it at every opportunity. They won't be troubled by memories of widows and orphans and scattered body parts, but they must fear that their roles as merchants of death might be rumbled. It is not hard to explain the inability of the world establishment to deal more effectively with these merchants of death. To allow merchants of terror to change Spain would be a disservice to the memories of those who perished; Spanish culture and freedom must always be celebrated. But that was of no concern to the merchants of death. That, of course, is precisely why the violence is being ratcheted up - because the stakes for the corrupt merchants of death are so enormous. Having been through this whole process a bunch of times, I had no illusions that I was dealing with rip-off merchants. The merchants of death are adept at using marketing to undermine the good influence of parents. Neither these merchants of death nor the government saw any reason to stop the fair in the wake of last week's horror in New York. It took more than a year and half before it decided it could no longer deal with him, that he was still merchant of terror; that his word was meaningless. That's a mighty weak basis on which to call us frauds, liars, and smear merchants. Some of these merchants of death even have the audacity to take their patients' temperatures, measure blood pressure, and use a stethoscope. The corrupt politicians and immoral merchants must be dealt with sternly according to the full extent of the law in order to prove that this society is a place where honest citizens can be rewarded. You have to wonder about the horrific irony of the death merchant confronting the loss of his own son. The man is a merchant of death and, despite his efforts to distance himself, he knows that what he is doing is wrong. Marching against death merchants at the DSEi arms fair earlier this year (Pic: Guy Smallman) I cannot tell you how harsh I would be if I were a judge, sentencing these drug dealers, these death merchants. 1.3 (in historical contexts) a person involved in trade or commerce. （尤指历史用语）经商者 prosperous merchants and clothiers had established a middle class 富裕的经销商和服装商形成了中间阶层。 Example sentencesExamples See the ancient history of merchants for a continuation of this advice, as applied to the art of selling wine. When King James continued his slide to absolutism… even the larger merchants and commercial landowners in England became alarmed. Bristol poet, Thomas Rowley, a monk and friend of William Canynge, a historical Bristol merchant. It was founded high on a series of hills by prosperous Saxon merchants in the Middle Ages. He also initiated trade between the Franks and the Muslims and made commercial pacts with the merchants of Venice who traded with both Byzantium and Islam. Many of them were prosperous merchants and, possible, noblemen. Association football, founded in 1863, was mostly spread by the merchants and clerks of British commerce and by the engineers who built the European and South American railways. Growing overseas commerce with colonies stimulated merchants to provide ships, as well as goods for expanding settler societies. In virtue of the abundant salt produced in Shanxi, the earliest Shanxi merchants arrived on the historical stage. He came from a family of prosperous silk merchants and was chairman of the textile firm Courtaulds Ltd. from 1921 to 1946. When Norwood, a prosperous bond merchant, built the house, Fourteenth Street was at the northernmost edge of development on Manhattan Island. The study day includes lectures on the links between Sheba and Axum, Arab merchants of the Middle Ages and Navigation and Commerce from Aden. A very well off and prosperous merchant, to be sure, but my ancestors had to work for the respect my father has now. He says the doom merchants' prophecies should be put in context. Thus, the potential of global exposure to global communication, the dream of every merchant in history, has arrived. The Letter of Law emphasized the importance of facilitating commerce and assisting merchants to develop their trading activities. Thus, playing the Nubians allowed me to get access to commerce advances early, letting me build caravans and merchants to generate enough wealth for my endeavors. Piero della Francesca, who came from a family of fairly prosperous merchants, is recognised as one of the most important painters of the Renaissance. Dutch merchants and Dutch commercial capital poured into Londen after 1690 and went to play an important role in the re-export trade between England and the Continent. In the terror which followed, the wealth of the prosperous merchants made them a particular target, and axe, rope, and fire consumed the natural leaders of Dutch society. 2derogatory, informal usually with modifier A person who has a liking for a particular activity. 〈非正式，主贬〉热衷者 his driver was no speed merchant 他的司机绝不热衷于超速驾驶。 Example sentencesExamples I have only heard what Jimmy told me, which was told to him by Lawrence, the Champion embellisher wind-up merchant - he spread it round the neighbourhood we were lost in the Maldives. I work in internet advertising (but not in sales, I have my pride) so sometimes the spam merchant techniques to grab people's attention will perk my interest. Jose has been enjoying the build-up to this game and has comfortably added to his reputation as European football's best wind-up merchant. In a masterstroke of casting, He plays Vanya as a bored and disappointed man who entertains himself by playing the Glasgow wind-up merchant. He can expect to find Sampras, the ultimate serve and volley merchant, claiming a position netside with the same sort of voracity with which a German holidaymaker stakes his claim poolside. Come on out, you fuzzy-headed wind-up merchant. Happy to slug it out from the baseline, he is happiest coming in to the net and combines the booming serve with the delicate touch of a true serve and volley merchant. The play will run from March 27 to April 3 and will tell the story of Vincent, a professional suicide merchant, and the strange situation in which he finds himself. A rarity from the archives, this solo album was recorded for the Japanese market a quarter of a century ago, when he was almost as well known as the thinking person's funk merchant as a straightahead pianist. Mr Adams is no agitprop merchant; his music would be deeply boring if he was. The diary's favourite balls-up merchant is still Danny, though. It is the perfect watch for a well-honed style merchant on sinister covert missions. adjective ˈməːtʃ(ə)ntˈmərtʃənt 1attributive (in historical contexts) relating to merchants or commerce. （尤指历史用语）经商者 the growth of the merchant classes 商人阶层的发展。 Example sentencesExamples Born in late medieval Italy, Francis repudiated his life among the wealthy merchant class to espouse to himself Lady Poverty and live as a wandering begging friar. However, the lower orders turned against the merchant class and demanded political and social changes that were in fact, if not in name, democratic. At this stage in history, the merchant class, desperate for money to finance their adventures, struggled with the monopoly of the moneylenders and overcame it. The revolution he envisioned would be accomplished through the cooperation of lower ranking samurai and men from the peasant and merchant classes. In the end, it will be commerce and the merchant class that will provide, and they will have to go it alone, without the help of superpowers. Farmers originally settled the area in the north of Manhattan, then came prominent white families and then the white merchant class. While quarto publications were within the reach of many of London's merchant class, the publication of the First Folio placed the authoritative works of Shakespeare in the hands of the few. During those years in north-central Italy a new merchant class was forming (to which Francis belonged). They had the support of the merchant class, the whites and the rich. They were timber-panelled inside and were the fairly modest residences of the trading and merchant classes. Was it some subtle dig at the disgraceful standards of literacy among the merchant classes of 16th-century Venice? His sympathies to socialism were further rebellion against his family background from the merchant class of Manchester. Along with Westerners, the Chinese merchant class dominated the economy in the nineteenth century, especially with the exportation of rice. Tulips became a status symbol - and wealthy Dutch and European aristocrats and newly-wealthy merchant classes had to have them! More attention was paid to the removal of stone than to the finished product, and thus, a rising merchant class replaced the Middletown school of gravestone carvers. Calls for western-style reforms tend to be confined to the merchant classes and some members of the existing establishment. Toward the left foreground are the small yellow houses of the common people; note the red roofs of the merchant class, clustered around the open bazaar. The people who benefited most, economically, were the merchant class and slightly wealthier farmers. The expansion of the merchant classes was already a feature of life in the 15th century, and by the 16th it had become a phenomenon. Contrary to what Maria was expecting, it wasn't covered in gold and fine silk but was more like the common ones used by the merchant class. 1.1 (of ships, sailors, or shipping activity) involved with commerce rather than military activity. （船，水手，航运）从事商业的 a merchant seaman 商船船员。 Example sentencesExamples In fact, foreign sailors and merchant seamen were the first to spread the myth of Kobe beef back in the early nineteenth century. The English were informed of the Spanish movements and quickly assembled a fleet of mostly merchant ships. The rest of his young adulthood became a quest for financial security, and he shipped out as a merchant sailor. During filming, the ship was called to a real-life drama when a Greek merchant ship caught fire, making the ship safe and fielding nine bravery awards into the bargain. As early as the fourteenth century Europeans had suspected that rats spread the plague from quarantined merchant ships to the port cities. Nearly 3,000 British sailors and merchant seamen lost their lives on the convoys. The two larger ships that dominated the center of the formation were clearly galleons: armed merchant ships. When he sails, he normally sails as a merchant sailor, because he is paid and has no responsibility. Built of English oak and Cornish elm, they are traditionally designed and locally built rowing boats originally used to deliver pilots to incoming merchant ships. At twelve years of age, Verne ran off to be a cabin boy on a merchant ship, thinking he was going to have an adventure. Most of the pirates were on the merchant ship, and the good merchant sailors were greatly outnumbered. Not only did warships have to be built in Australia but also repaired, merchant ships were also converted for war use. Their success in picking off merchant ships proved very useful. Aside from building railway carriages he also worked on merchant ships for the American cargo fleet. As well as being the senior ensign of the King's ships, the red ensign was also worn by merchant ships. Summer runs were deemed too risky, because foul winter weather provided far better cover for slow-moving merchant ships. She gave protection to the merchant ships and sailors, and gave those ashore confidence that the vital supplies would always get through under her watchful eye. The fleet of merchant ships was as busy as Rome readying for war. Chen calculated an average of 50 seamen lose their lives and another 50 disappear without trace at sea each year aboard merchant ships and fishing boats. During those years, she had seen many wounded naval officers and merchant sailors. Synonyms commercial, trade, trading, business, merchant, sales Origin Middle English: from Old French marchant, based on Latin mercari 'to trade', from merx, merc- 'merchandise'. Definition of merchant in US English: merchant nounˈmərCHəntˈmərtʃənt 1A person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchandise to a particular trade. 商人；（尤指外贸）批发商；供应商 a tea merchant 茶叶批发商。 the area's leading timber merchant Example sentencesExamples Many of the nation's shoppers also behave online a lot like they would at the local mall: buying the same kinds of products from the same merchants. The Chinese occupied the position of intermediaries between foreign western merchants and the domestic market. Producers and merchants trading in pine honey risk confiscation of their goods if they put it on the market with this trade mark. This will not rely on passing trade and are mainly sold wholesale to other merchants. For merchants selling children's products, though, a dab of color and creativity can certainly boost traffic. The port was transported to the port merchants' warehouses in Oporto where it sat for years, sometimes decades, until the brandy and wine had integrated fully. One road sells cane-ware, another has scrap merchants trading in steel and iron, wholesale merchants who deal in old cloth. More than 80 merchants sell fresh produce, meat, fish, flowers, breads, crafts, books and clothing. The specialists simply have to intensify their focus to stay alive, offering products and services that mass merchants cannot. It was then the business of FT Burley & Son, wholesale fruit merchants and ‘banana specialists’, and boasted a ripening room. In the printing industry, for example, very large printers obtain their inks direct from manufacturers, while smaller printers tend to rely on wholesale merchants. Before emigrating he worked in his father's business of wholesale yeast merchants in Stricklandgate. As American pioneers headed westward, scoundrels occasionally would present forged letters of credit to wholesale merchants in larger towns. On the Chinese side, the Canton authorities limited trade with the foreign merchants to a group of Chinese merchant houses, the Hongs, nominally thirteen in number. Though a number of companies and merchants traded with different places, the Netherlands gradually predominated, particularly for the export of cloth. The United States seeks contracts with regional industries and merchants for supplies, services, facilities, and labor to support bases. Consumers are turning away from traditional department stores and shopping more at mass merchants, discounters and warehouse marts. Some of the well-known family businesses include timber merchants and builders' providers the McMahon Group. Use the same judgment and common sense with internet, phone or mail-order merchants that you use in shops. They acquire their goods on consignment from wholesale merchants in the larger towns, then carry them on the train into the countryside. 1.1North American A retail trader; a store owner. 〈主北美〉零售商；零售店店主 the credit cards are accepted by 10 million merchants worldwide 全世界有1，000万个零售商接受这些信用卡。 Example sentencesExamples Most of these marketing efforts were directed toward retail merchants. This is the perfect location for this show because William Hadwen was a merchant who retailed silver and other goods on Nantucket during the early nineteenth century. They brushed past merchants and traders and came to the bridge, where a surly-looking guard with a grey-tipped beard stood. It is obvious that much depends upon the psychology of the merchants and other traders, and particularly on their expectations as to the course of markets. Inside the walls were the rest, the ones who fell into the middle, the lower merchants, traders, dealers, hawkers, along with business of all kinds crammed into the walls. I think retail merchants have to make that decision for themselves. If so, then why have men traders, merchants and entrepreneurs been assumed to reside within the public? He was succeeded by his uncle Malarangiah, who encouraged traders and merchants from different parts of India to settle in Bangalore. One of the town's biggest retail merchants wants Wal-Mart to move in. All Pro projects that the products will bring in more than $8-million in retail sales to area merchants. Taking a deep breath, Julian pressed on through the Zetapol market, where merchants and traders competed in hollering. Powerless though the Serlians may be politically, they are honest merchants and prolific traders. In the blink of an eye, her ring collections jetted from the showrooms into the gleaming display cases of the world class retail merchants like Bloomingdales. For days upon days, merchants and traders had brought various bolts and pieces of cloth for Erial and Madame to consider. Chinese merchants and traders arrived and settled in the ninth century A.D. The majority of Indo-Fijians who left following the coup were shop owners and other retail merchants and bankers. In the early days of the late 1990s, pioneer online merchants fruitlessly spent millions of dollars on TV and radio ads aimed at the mass market. New markets could also be found among those profiting most from industrialisation, not just manufacturers, but traders, merchants and bankers. Its merchant network includes 11.7 million merchants and spans 190 countries and territories. Millions of misguided merchants paying their hardearned out to deluded ‘designers’ so that they too can join the cyberspace community. Synonyms trader, dealer, trafficker, wholesaler, broker, agent, seller, buyer, buyer and seller, salesman, salesperson, saleswoman, vendor, retailer, shopkeeper, tradesman, distributor, representative, commercial traveller, marketer, marketeer, pedlar, hawker 1.2 (in historical contexts) a person involved in trade or commerce. （尤指历史用语）经商者 prosperous merchants and clothiers had established a middle class 富裕的经销商和服装商形成了中间阶层。 Example sentencesExamples He came from a family of prosperous silk merchants and was chairman of the textile firm Courtaulds Ltd. from 1921 to 1946. A very well off and prosperous merchant, to be sure, but my ancestors had to work for the respect my father has now. He also initiated trade between the Franks and the Muslims and made commercial pacts with the merchants of Venice who traded with both Byzantium and Islam. Association football, founded in 1863, was mostly spread by the merchants and clerks of British commerce and by the engineers who built the European and South American railways. The Letter of Law emphasized the importance of facilitating commerce and assisting merchants to develop their trading activities. Thus, the potential of global exposure to global communication, the dream of every merchant in history, has arrived. When King James continued his slide to absolutism… even the larger merchants and commercial landowners in England became alarmed. In virtue of the abundant salt produced in Shanxi, the earliest Shanxi merchants arrived on the historical stage. Bristol poet, Thomas Rowley, a monk and friend of William Canynge, a historical Bristol merchant. Dutch merchants and Dutch commercial capital poured into Londen after 1690 and went to play an important role in the re-export trade between England and the Continent. When Norwood, a prosperous bond merchant, built the house, Fourteenth Street was at the northernmost edge of development on Manhattan Island. The study day includes lectures on the links between Sheba and Axum, Arab merchants of the Middle Ages and Navigation and Commerce from Aden. He says the doom merchants' prophecies should be put in context. Piero della Francesca, who came from a family of fairly prosperous merchants, is recognised as one of the most important painters of the Renaissance. Thus, playing the Nubians allowed me to get access to commerce advances early, letting me build caravans and merchants to generate enough wealth for my endeavors. See the ancient history of merchants for a continuation of this advice, as applied to the art of selling wine. Many of them were prosperous merchants and, possible, noblemen. It was founded high on a series of hills by prosperous Saxon merchants in the Middle Ages. Growing overseas commerce with colonies stimulated merchants to provide ships, as well as goods for expanding settler societies. In the terror which followed, the wealth of the prosperous merchants made them a particular target, and axe, rope, and fire consumed the natural leaders of Dutch society. 2derogatory, informal usually with modifier A person with a partiality or aptitude for a particular activity or viewpoint. 〈非正式，主贬〉热衷者 his driver was no speed merchant 他的司机绝不热衷于超速驾驶。 a merchant of death 死亡贩子。 Example sentencesExamples I have only heard what Jimmy told me, which was told to him by Lawrence, the Champion embellisher wind-up merchant - he spread it round the neighbourhood we were lost in the Maldives. Happy to slug it out from the baseline, he is happiest coming in to the net and combines the booming serve with the delicate touch of a true serve and volley merchant. A rarity from the archives, this solo album was recorded for the Japanese market a quarter of a century ago, when he was almost as well known as the thinking person's funk merchant as a straightahead pianist. He can expect to find Sampras, the ultimate serve and volley merchant, claiming a position netside with the same sort of voracity with which a German holidaymaker stakes his claim poolside. In a masterstroke of casting, He plays Vanya as a bored and disappointed man who entertains himself by playing the Glasgow wind-up merchant. The play will run from March 27 to April 3 and will tell the story of Vincent, a professional suicide merchant, and the strange situation in which he finds himself. Come on out, you fuzzy-headed wind-up merchant. I work in internet advertising (but not in sales, I have my pride) so sometimes the spam merchant techniques to grab people's attention will perk my interest. Mr Adams is no agitprop merchant; his music would be deeply boring if he was. The diary's favourite balls-up merchant is still Danny, though. It is the perfect watch for a well-honed style merchant on sinister covert missions. Jose has been enjoying the build-up to this game and has comfortably added to his reputation as European football's best wind-up merchant. adjectiveˈmərCHəntˈmərtʃənt 1attributive Relating to merchants, trade, or commerce. 商人的；贸易的，商业的 the growth of the merchant classes 商人阶层的发展。 Example sentencesExamples The revolution he envisioned would be accomplished through the cooperation of lower ranking samurai and men from the peasant and merchant classes. Tulips became a status symbol - and wealthy Dutch and European aristocrats and newly-wealthy merchant classes had to have them! Contrary to what Maria was expecting, it wasn't covered in gold and fine silk but was more like the common ones used by the merchant class. Was it some subtle dig at the disgraceful standards of literacy among the merchant classes of 16th-century Venice? While quarto publications were within the reach of many of London's merchant class, the publication of the First Folio placed the authoritative works of Shakespeare in the hands of the few. Farmers originally settled the area in the north of Manhattan, then came prominent white families and then the white merchant class. At this stage in history, the merchant class, desperate for money to finance their adventures, struggled with the monopoly of the moneylenders and overcame it. Calls for western-style reforms tend to be confined to the merchant classes and some members of the existing establishment. During those years in north-central Italy a new merchant class was forming (to which Francis belonged). Born in late medieval Italy, Francis repudiated his life among the wealthy merchant class to espouse to himself Lady Poverty and live as a wandering begging friar. However, the lower orders turned against the merchant class and demanded political and social changes that were in fact, if not in name, democratic. More attention was paid to the removal of stone than to the finished product, and thus, a rising merchant class replaced the Middletown school of gravestone carvers. The people who benefited most, economically, were the merchant class and slightly wealthier farmers. They had the support of the merchant class, the whites and the rich. They were timber-panelled inside and were the fairly modest residences of the trading and merchant classes. Toward the left foreground are the small yellow houses of the common people; note the red roofs of the merchant class, clustered around the open bazaar. Along with Westerners, the Chinese merchant class dominated the economy in the nineteenth century, especially with the exportation of rice. In the end, it will be commerce and the merchant class that will provide, and they will have to go it alone, without the help of superpowers. The expansion of the merchant classes was already a feature of life in the 15th century, and by the 16th it had become a phenomenon. His sympathies to socialism were further rebellion against his family background from the merchant class of Manchester. 1.1 (of ships, sailors, or shipping activity) involved with commerce rather than military activity. （船，水手，航运）从事商业的 a merchant seaman 商船船员。 Example sentencesExamples She gave protection to the merchant ships and sailors, and gave those ashore confidence that the vital supplies would always get through under her watchful eye. Not only did warships have to be built in Australia but also repaired, merchant ships were also converted for war use. During filming, the ship was called to a real-life drama when a Greek merchant ship caught fire, making the ship safe and fielding nine bravery awards into the bargain. As early as the fourteenth century Europeans had suspected that rats spread the plague from quarantined merchant ships to the port cities. Built of English oak and Cornish elm, they are traditionally designed and locally built rowing boats originally used to deliver pilots to incoming merchant ships. At twelve years of age, Verne ran off to be a cabin boy on a merchant ship, thinking he was going to have an adventure. Most of the pirates were on the merchant ship, and the good merchant sailors were greatly outnumbered. As well as being the senior ensign of the King's ships, the red ensign was also worn by merchant ships. The two larger ships that dominated the center of the formation were clearly galleons: armed merchant ships. When he sails, he normally sails as a merchant sailor, because he is paid and has no responsibility. The rest of his young adulthood became a quest for financial security, and he shipped out as a merchant sailor. Summer runs were deemed too risky, because foul winter weather provided far better cover for slow-moving merchant ships. Their success in picking off merchant ships proved very useful. During those years, she had seen many wounded naval officers and merchant sailors. Aside from building railway carriages he also worked on merchant ships for the American cargo fleet. The fleet of merchant ships was as busy as Rome readying for war. Chen calculated an average of 50 seamen lose their lives and another 50 disappear without trace at sea each year aboard merchant ships and fishing boats. The English were informed of the Spanish movements and quickly assembled a fleet of mostly merchant ships. Nearly 3,000 British sailors and merchant seamen lost their lives on the convoys. In fact, foreign sailors and merchant seamen were the first to spread the myth of Kobe beef back in the early nineteenth century. Synonyms commercial, trade, trading, business, merchant, sales Origin Middle English: from Old French marchant, based on Latin mercari ‘to trade’, from merx, merc- ‘merchandise’.
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