merchants (noun)

  • 11exporter — noun Date: 1623 one that exports; specifically a wholesaler who sells to merchants or industrial consumers in foreign countries …

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  • 12scavenger — noun Etymology: alteration of earlier scavager, from Anglo French scawageour collector of scavage (duty collected from non resident street merchants), from skawage scavage, from Middle French dialect (Flanders) escauver to inspect, from Middle… …

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  • 13wholesaler — noun Date: 1857 a merchant middleman who sells chiefly to retailers, other merchants, or industrial, institutional, and commercial users mainly for resale or business use …

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  • 14caduceus — noun a) The official wand carried by a herald in ancient Greece and Rome, specifically the one carried in mythology by Hermes, the messenger of the gods, usually represented with two snakes twined around it. Caduceus the rod of Mercury, / With… …

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  • 15blowhard — noun A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self important manner. The merchants are the most ultra Secessionists. . . . Some men of Northern origin were the most rabid. A blowhard, named James Patterson, of… …

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  • 16Argobba — noun a) A Ethiopian Semitic language spoken in an area north east of Addis Ababa by the Argobba people. b) A member of a Muslim group of traders and merchants, spread out through isolated village networks and towns in the northeast and east of… …

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  • 17insolvency — noun a) The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay his debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business; as, a merchants insolvency. b)… …

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  • 18code face — noun The place where programmers develop source code (as opposed to conceptually distant areas such as design and marketing). ...hype merchants of the computing world are up and running off towards the horizon before the IS workers toiling away… …

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  • 19guild — noun /ɡɪld/ A group of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages Syn: union, trade union, professional association …

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  • 20Rus — noun /ruːs,rʌs/ a) A group of Scandinavian warrior merchants who travelled Eastern European river roads from the eighth century. And if a Rus hits a Greek, or a Greek a Rus with a sword, a spear or any other weapon, he shall pay five litres of… …

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