hawker

as in vendor
one who sells things outdoors street corner hawkers selling everything from fake designer purses to original works of art

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Recent Examples of hawker His father, a construction worker, and his mother, a hawker, had 11 children and could only afford to send Lee to school for six years. Ram Anand, Fortune Asia, 9 Sep. 2024 After graduating from secondary school, Mackenzie worked as a street hawker in Mombasa, then drove a taxi in Malindi. Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024 They were both placed on a 10-day remand for interrogation over the death of 24-year-old hawker Md. Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019 Inside the two-story complex, hawkers sell everything from glamour to junk. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 25 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for hawker
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Noun
  • At Pier 60, sunsets are celebrated every evening with a festival that brings out vendors and street performers.
    Brittany Anas, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The high hosted 36 vendors at its career fair on Wednesday, the Desert Sun reported.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Home sellers in Southwest Florida are slashing their asking prices at rates unseen since the years that followed the economic downturn of late 2007 to 2009, according to real estate professor Shelton Weeks.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Within the retail business, Amazon has already launched a shopping chatbot, an AI assistant for sellers and AI shopping guides.
    Annie Palmer, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Commerce depended on walkers—people commuting to work, travelers and pilgrims stopping at shops to buy goods that were unavailable in other cities, and peddlers selling food, drink, and a variety of goods and services, among others.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Dec. 2024
  • On the other hand, South Congress Books recently closed shop and, in this age of Amazon, book peddlers are constantly trying to figure out how to draw in buyers.
    Asher Price, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Racers and visitors are advised to not park in any merchant lots.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2025
  • After all, between January 2024 and Inauguration Day, the U.S. military and its allies conducted over 260 strikes on Houthi targets, but the attacks on merchant and naval assets kept coming.
    The Editors, National Review, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Yet religious hucksters continue to draw crowds, always preying on the vulnerable.
    Lynne Silva-Breen, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The biggest takeaway from the dinner, however, is that they have been married nine and a half years, right before the ten-year mark when everything in California becomes joint property and Dorit would get half no matter what her huckster of a husband says.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025

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“Hawker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawker. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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