merchant (n.)
- agent
- baron
- broker
- business
- businessman
- caterer
- chandler
- commercial
- commissariat
- commissary
- dealer
- distributor
- donor
- drummer
- hawker
- huckster
- importer
- industrialist
- jobber
- magnate
- marketer
- merchandiser
- middleman
- mogul
- monger
- patron
- provider
- provisioner
- purveyor
- quartermaster
- retail
- retailer
- seller
- shopkeeper
- steward
- storekeeper
- supplier
- sutler
- trade
- trader
- tradesman
- trading
- trafficker
- tycoon
- vendor
- victualer
- wholesale
- wholesaler
When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, begging them to taste a little brandy and throwing half his goods on the counter,—thinks I, that man has an axe to grind.
