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# merchant

«merchant» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who buys and sells goods to make money, a trader** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (merchant, merchants); adjective (merchant ship, merchant navy)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A merchant is a person who buys and sells goods to make money, a trader. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merchant/#m1)

2) In old times merchants sailed or travelled far to trade cloth, spices and gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merchant/#m2)

3) A merchant ship carries goods for trade, not soldiers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merchant/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a person who buys, sells, makes profit or loss; prices and amounts of goods; in history and stories merchants travel, trade and get rich or lose everything; in everyday life we say shopkeeper or seller more often

### examples

- A merchant buys 20 bags of rice for 5 dollars each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merchant/#x1)
- He sells them for 7 dollars each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merchant/#x2)
- What is his profit? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merchant/#x3)
- The merchant has 300 metres of cloth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merchant/#x4)
- Merchants carried silk and spices along long roads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merchant/#x5)
- The merchant ship sailed into the harbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merchant/#x6)
- In the story, a poor boy became a rich merchant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merchant/#x7)
- The merchant weighed the tea on his scales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merchant/#x8)
- The merchants considered for some time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merchant/#x9)

### note

A seller: profit = selling price minus cost price, × number of items. Trap: the profit on each bag is the difference, not the selling price. If he sells for less than he paid, it is a loss.

### In the corpora

- [Few traders travelled the whole Silk Road; goods usually passed from merchant to merchant and market to market.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/11/)
- [Venice was a merchant republic ruled by an elected Doge (a duke chosen for life) and councils of noble families.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/6/)
- [In the pearl of great price a merchant sold everything he had to buy one precious pearl.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/12/)
- [Who hath devised this against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.476/)
- [The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and never shalt be any more.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.722/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «merchant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merchant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.