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Merchant :: Merchant (a.) Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service..

Merchantry :: Merchantry (n.) The business of a merchant; merchandise.

Solvent :: Solvent (a.) Able or sufficient to pay all just debts; as, a solvent merchant; the estate is solvent..

Butlerage :: Butlerage (n.) A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king.

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

Merchant :: Merchant (n.) A trading vessel; a merchantman.

Billhead :: Billhead (n.) A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts..

Trade-mark :: Trade-mark (n.) A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law..

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..

Vintner :: Vintner (n.) One who deals in wine; a wine seller, or wine merchant..

Blackmail :: Blackmail (v. t.) To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud..

Countingroom :: Countingroom (v.) The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business..

Sea Pass :: Sea pass () A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to show their nationality; a sea letter or passport. See Passport..

Longboat :: Longboat (n.) Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel, corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel..

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..

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

Prince :: Prince (a.) The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is preeminent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players..

Merchantry :: Merchantry (n.) The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country..

Dealer :: Dealer (n.) One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer..

Discount :: Discount (v.) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills..

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