merchant : Idioms & Phrases

Index

Commission merchant

  • one who buys or sells goods on commission, as the agent of others, receiving a rate per cent as his compensation.
Webster 1913

Custom of merchants

  • a system or code of customs by which affairs of commerce are regulated.
Webster 1913

grain merchant

  • noun a merchant who deals in food grains
WordNet

Hong merchant

  • one of the few Chinese merchants who, previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had the exclusive privilege of trading with foreigners.
Webster 1913

law merchant

  • noun the body of rules applied to commercial transactions; derived from the practices of traders rather than from jurisprudence
    mercantile law; commercial law.
WordNet

Law merchant, ∨ Commercial law

  • a system of rules by which trade and commerce are regulated; deduced from the custom of merchants, and regulated by judicial decisions, as also by enactments of legislatures. now in most state superseded by the Uniform Commercial Code
Webster 1913

merchant bank

  • noun a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee
    acquirer.
WordNet

Merchant bar, Merchant iron ∨ steel

  • certain common sizes of wrought iron and steel bars.
Webster 1913

merchant marine

  • noun the crew of a merchant vessel
  • noun conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry
    merchant marine; cargo ships; shipping.
WordNet

Merchant service

  • the mercantile marine of a country. Am. Cyc.
Webster 1913

Merchant ship

  • noun a cargo ship
    freighter; merchantman; bottom.
    • they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms
WordNet
  • a ship employed in commerce.
Webster 1913

Merchant tailor

  • a tailor who keeps and sells materials for the garments which he makes.
Webster 1913

merchant vessels

  • noun conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry
    merchant marine; cargo ships; shipping.
WordNet

merchant-venturer

  • noun a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas)
    venturer.
WordNet

porn merchant

  • noun someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores
    pornographer.
WordNet

Raff merchant

  • a dealer in lumber and odd refuse. Prov. Eng.
Webster 1913

retail merchant

  • noun a merchant who sells goods at retail
    retailer.
WordNet

rug merchant

  • noun a merchant who sells rugs
WordNet

salt merchant

  • noun someone who makes or deals in salt
    salter.
WordNet

Statute merchant

  • (Eng. Law), a bond of record pursuant to the stat. 13 Edw. I., acknowledged in form prescribed, on which, if not paid at the day, an execution might be awarded against the body, lands, and goods of the debtor, and the obligee might hold the lands until out of the rents and profits of them the debt was satisfied; called also a pocket judgment. It is now fallen into disuse. Tomlins. Bouvier.
Webster 1913

trader ∨ merchant

  • (Eng. Law), a married woman, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.
Webster 1913

Wine merchant

  • noun someone who sells wine
    vintner.
WordNet
  • a merchant who deals in wines.
Webster 1913