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free-ˈtrader
1. a. One allowed to trade without restriction.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 86 They permit Free Traders on their Island Bombaim. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 375 The pedlar..was, as it were, the first ‘free-trader’.
b. (See quot.)
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Free Trader, ships trading formerly under license to India independent of the old East India Company's Charter.
c. A trader not in the service of a company. U.S.
1837W. Irving Adv. Capt. Bonneville (1895) I. 66 Waylaying and dogging the caravans of the free traders, and murdering the solitary trapper. 1902S. E. White Conjuror's House iv. 39 Brooding on his imprisonment the Free Trader forgot his surroundings. 1945R. W. Service Ploughman 429 McTosh is a free trader..and hates the Company.
2. A smuggler; also, a smuggling vessel.
1815Scott Guy M. v, There go the free-traders. 1824― Redgauntlet ch. xiv, As if..a free-trader could sail the Solway as securely as a King's cutter!
3. An advocate of free-trade.
1832Deb. Congress U.S. 6 June 3305 He admits a fact which the free traders have always found it difficult to explain, that goods do not usually rise under an increase of duties. 1849Cobden Speeches 34 If..there be free-traders who think that free-trade is only an experiment. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 266 They were tariff men and free-traders, conservative Whigs and radical Democrats. |