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Handle :: Handle (v. t.) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock..

Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises..

Passport :: Passport (n.) A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter..

Enter :: Enter (v. i.) To get admission; to introduce one's self; to penetrate; to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to share; to engage; -- usually with into; sometimes with on or upon; as, a ball enters into the body; water enters into a ship; he enters into the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into partnership with some one; to enter upon another's land; the boy enters on his tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of pewter..

Carry :: Carry (v. t.) To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance..

Slaver :: Slaver (n.) A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader..

Merchantman :: Merchantman (n.) A merchant.

Invoice :: Invoice (n.) The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large invoice of goods..

Burgee :: Burgee (n.) A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels..

Trafficker :: Trafficker (n.) One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant..

-ant :: -ant () A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant, covenant, servant, pleasant, etc. Cf. -ent..

Merchant :: Merchant (n.) One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader..

Scavage :: Scavage (n.) A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts..

Factor :: Factor (n.) One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker..

Register :: Register (n.) A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district.

Busy :: Busy (a.) Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant..

Importer :: Importer (n.) One who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country or state; -- opposed to exporter.

Solvability :: Solvability (n.) The condition of being solvent; ability to pay all just debts; solvency; as, the solvability of a merchant..

Banian :: Banian (n.) A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer..

Consulage :: Consulage (n.) A duty or tax paid by merchants for the protection of their commerce by means of a consul in a foreign place.

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