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单词 fair trader
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fair tradern.

Brit. /ˌfɛː ˈtreɪdə/, U.S. /ˈˌfɛ(ə)r ˈtreɪdər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fair adj., trader n.
Etymology: < fair adj. + trader n. Compare fair trade n.
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a. A trader dealing legally in imported or exported goods, as opposed to a smuggler. Now historical except as passing into sense 2.
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > fair-trader
fair trader1673
1673 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 56 Others who have found ye encouragemt from ye farmrs of Ireland to ye ruin of ye fair Trader here.
1698 Considerations conc. Afr.-companies Petition (single sheet) They will well-come and protect fair Traders.
1746 J. Lockman To 1st Promoter Cambrick & Tea-Bills 27 Bid the Fair-trader..bemoan His credit lost.
1783 G. Bishop Observ. Smuggling 18 The fair traders are burthened with high duties and obliged to be under very troublesome excise laws.
1833 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 101 The duty on Soap..causes a great deal of fraud and smuggling—to the injury of the fair trader.
1897 Gentleman's Mag. 43 The heavy import duties..rendered the legitimate fair trader's struggle to live a hard one.
1974 A. Rogers Empire & Liberty x. 125 Nearly all American merchants—weak and strong, fair traders and smugglers—realized that they had a stake in preventing the destruction of the West Indies trade.
2012 A. L. Karras Smuggling i. 7 Fair traders..accepted the commercial restrictions placed upon them.
b. British (euphemistic). A smuggler. Now archaic and historical.
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > smuggler
lorendriver1649
smuggler1661
gentleman1726
contrabandist1813
fair trader1824
spotsman1827
contrabandista1832
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. xiii. 313 Ay, Mr Alan Fairford—a good name for a fair trader.
1884 D. Pae Eustace 217 I am what is called a fair trader—in other words a smuggler.
1916 Living Age 11 Nov. 344/2 This gasthaus is a smugglers' haunt... By the greatest chance I was in the house, for these Fairtraders carry my letters.
2009 L. M. Wilkinson Fire at Midnight iv. 57 Have you no fear of the fairtraders who roam the coast?
2. gen. A person who or business which trades fairly or legally.
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c1691 Abridgement Case of Cities, Corporations & Market-Towns (single sheet) All Wandring Traders (except for Provisions) are generally limited..to take Houses and Shops, and to live (as other fair Traders) within the Limits of the Laws.
1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman II. 46 The Tradesmen of this Nation..are, generally speaking, fair Traders and punctual honest Dealers.
1760 Paper-credit Considered 13 We consider what the rules of bankers are in the light of fair traders.
1844 Brit. & Foreign Rev. 17 48 The small number of fraudulent traders..can support the credit of a bank in opposition to the majority of fair traders, who are careful.
1884 S. Dowell Hist. Taxation in Eng. IV. i. i. 5 [This] enabled the illicit manufacturer to compete successfully with the fair trader.
1919 Simmons' Spice Mill June 832/1 The principle involved..is of vital importance to all fair traders.
1982 Associated Press (Nexis) 8 Mar. ‘We don't believe the Japanese have been fair traders,’ he said.
2004 K. Mackel Alien in Bottle 18 Her parents would have paid Tagg to take the game away, but heck, he was a fair trader.
3. British. A supporter or advocate of the doctrine that free trade should be maintained only on a reciprocal basis with other nations having this system (see fair trade n. 3). Now historical.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > specific principles or policies > supporters of
reformist1641
reformer1648
engager1650
All the Virtues1816
Manchester school1846
fair trader1881
Manchestrist1882
Little Englander1889
Manchesterian1897
tariff-reformer1903
Little Englander Liberal1909
Poplarist1925
marketeer1962
Eurosceptic1978
1881 W. F. Ecroyd Speech delivered Oldham 21 Fair Traders..wanted..an extension of real free exchange.
1887 Spectator 21 May 674/1 The Fair-traders are at their wits' end for a compromise with Free-trade.
1940 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 12 172 The return of many less prominent fair-traders did little to compensate for the defeat of the fair-trade leaders and for the defeat of their Conservative allies.
2007 S. Kjeldsen-Kragh Role Agric. in Econ. Develop. vi. 155 Joseph Chamberlain became the spokesman of the fair traders, and in 1903 he began a campaign for tariff reform.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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