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# trader

«trader» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who buys and sells goods to make money, such as…** — 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 (a trader, traders)

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) (money) A trader is a person who buys and sells shares, money or other goods on a stock market. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trader/#m2)

3) (history) Traders carried goods like spices, silk and furs between faraway lands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trader/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, traders travel the Silk Road, and Viking traders sail to new lands. In everyday life, market traders call out prices and give change; in maths problems, traders buy at one price and sell at a higher one, and the difference is profit. Phrases: market trader, street trader, sole trader (a one-person business), fur trader.

### examples

- The market trader sold apples three for a pound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trader/#x1)
- Viking traders sailed far to sell furs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trader/#x2)
- A trader buys low and sells high to make a profit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trader/#x3)
- The fruit trader gave me an extra orange. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trader/#x4)
- Traders on the Silk Road carried silk from China. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trader/#x5)
- Dad is a sole trader who runs his own plumbing business. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trader/#x6)
- "What is the price of this cloth?" one trader will ask another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trader/#x7)

### note

Countable. Verb trade (traded). Maths: profit = selling price − buying price; if the trader sells for less, it is a loss. Trap: trader vs traitor (a person who betrays) — they sound a little alike.

### 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/)
- [In the 1200s and 1300s the Mongol Empire controlled most of the Silk Road, making it safer for traders to cross.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/16/)
- [Japan chose another path and from the 1630s shut its doors to most foreigners, letting only Dutch and Chinese traders in at Nagasaki.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/4/)
- [Roman soldiers and traders came from all over the empire, and some soldiers on Hadrian's Wall came from Iraq and North Africa.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/14-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads/17/)
- [A ruler's stamp on a coin promised its weight, so traders did not need to weigh metal every time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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