Synonyms of merchants

merchants

noun

plural of merchant

as in traders

a buyer and seller of goods for profit

free trade agreements that are favored by merchants on both sides of the border

Synonyms & Similar Words

• traders
• dealers
• businessmen
• retailers
• traffickers
• buyers
• tradesmen
• vendors
• entrepreneurs
• merchandisers
• purchasers
• distributors
• venders
• marketers
• sellers
• shopkeepers
• peddlers
• suppliers
• storekeepers
• pedlars
• wholesalers
• providers
• hawkers
• hucksters
• middlemen
• monopolists
• purveyors
• enterprisers
• hustlers
• jobbers
• provisioners
• engrossers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of merchants

That said, the most attractive part of the deal would be Discover’s proprietary card network, which charges merchants a fee for processing credit card transactions. —Trefis Team, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024

Amex’s customer cohort is attractive to merchants given their higher spending power. —Trefis Team, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024

This means that Amex charges merchants higher discount rates than Visa and Mastercard (about 3%). —Trefis Team, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024

Men of the Brotherhood of the Blackheads, an association of unmarried merchants and foreign traders, are said to have decorated the tree with artificial roses. —Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024

Credit card companies position themselves in the middle, profiting from both interchange fees from merchants and interest payments from revolvers. —Boaz Sobrado, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024

The ferry was traveling as part of a convoy of other vessels and the passengers were primarily merchants returning home for Christmas, said the mayor of Ingende, the last town on the river before the site of the accident. —Jean-Yves Kamale and Wilson McMakin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024

The settlement was a result of a long-running antitrust case in which the two credit card network giants allegedly overcharged merchants by exacting excessive interchange fees, also called swipe fees. —Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024

The latter option would be preferable for northern Arizona merchants and visitors, clearly, and services might be enhanced with state money. —Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 20 Dec. 2024