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Definition of Merchants
1. merchant [v] - See also: merchant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Merchants
Literary usage of Merchants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... it was not a place for merchants, except that at fome certain times they had
a kind of a fair there, when the merchants from "Japan came over thither to ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1892)
"124-5 ; al l merchants' booths to be closed for fifteen days, ... 145, and see
under Flanders ; anent merchants sailing with goods to France and Flanders, ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"Therefore, as against the mortgage creditors, the merchants' Bank, notwithstanding
its Judgment, can claim no right beyond a pro rata distribution of the ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1911)
"The writer is not a believer in the scheme of the Boston merchants for relieving
the financial situation by the emission of their notes. ..."
5. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"But it seems to have been rather a special law for mercantile transactions than
a special law for merchants. It would we think have been found chiefly to ..."
6. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1891)
"In July, The merchants the New York merchants broke the non- of New ... At the
Boston town meeting the letter of the New York merchants was torn in pieces. ..."