merchant

Example Sentences

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In 1749, Brook Watson, a 14-year-old English youth serving on a merchant ship, was swimming in Havana harbor when he was attacked by a shark.

From The Wall Street Journal

Visa and Mastercard are nearing a settlement with merchants that aims to end a 20-year-old legal dispute by lowering fees stores pay and giving them more power to reject certain credit cards.

From The Wall Street Journal

Those items came from a typical tomb in Sedment, Egypt, south of Cairo, believed to belong to a merchant family.

From Science Daily

But other packages, especially those sold by smaller Chinese merchants, end up in shadow logistics networks, mostly run by Chinese immigrants on social media, known as overseas family warehouses.

From The Wall Street Journal

Policymakers in Beijing have encouraged local governments to distribute consumption vouchers through digital-yuan “red packets,” which can be restricted by time, merchant or product category, allowing officials to steer spending more precisely.

From MarketWatch