TRADER (trader)

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Irregular inflected form: trader   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does trader mean? 

• TRADER (noun)
  The noun TRADER has 1 sense:

1. someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold

  Familiarity information: TRADER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRADER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bargainer; dealer; monger; trader

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 

“I am a peaceful trader, and I am not wont to be so shouted at upon so small a matter.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I've watered there with a trader I was cook in.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Or you may be working with financial matters around the clock, say, if you are an accountant, broker, or day trader.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“THAT carrion! And he ever cared for her, she'd tell me. Ha, ha! The liars that these traders are!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I am a beauty-merchant, a trader in song, and I pursue utility, dear Madge.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"Bourgeois," "trader's den"—Brissenden's epithets repeated themselves in his mind.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His father was a narrow-minded trader and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The ancient Cornish language had also arrested his attention, and he had, I remember, conceived the idea that it was akin to the Chaldean, and had been largely derived from the Phœnician traders in tin.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The nurseries for children of ordinary gentlemen, merchants, traders, and handicrafts, are managed proportionably after the same manner; only those designed for trades are put out apprentices at eleven years old, whereas those of persons of quality continue in their exercises till fifteen, which answers to twenty-one with us: but the confinement is gradually lessened for the last three years.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Yet I had the rogues up at the court of pie-powder, and they will harm no more peaceful traders.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)