单词 | trader |
释义 | tradern. 1. a. A person engaged in trading or commerce; a person who buys and sells goods; a dealer.market trader, slave trader, street trader, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] mongereOE chapmanc890 haberdasher1311 need doera1382 handlera1398 unfreeman1445 occupier1509 taker-up1548 trafficker1560 pliers1565 copeman1566 trader1566 copemaster1579 couper1581 drover1585 negotiator1596 merchandiser1597 coper1609 dealer1611 commercer1632 market-maker1647 general dealer1709 negotianta1774 outfitter1829 man- 1566 I. A. tr. Pliny Summarie Antiq. sig. C.vi Penius the firste trader for Marchandise [Fr. Peni, les premieres marchandises]. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxv. f. 140v Great traders [Fr. trafficqueurs], with merchandise & ready monie. 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 55 The traders [It. mercatanti] and handie-crafts men who had not their kinsemen there. 1658 J. Harrington Prerogative Pop. Govt. i. xi. 97 The Jews who have no Lands are every where great Traders. 1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 78 in Athenæ Britannicæ III The Traders were not oblig'd to take one anothers Penny-coyns. 1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 117 Neither traders, nor often gentlemen, thought themselves disgraced by ignorance. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. xx. 40 One of those general gatherings of traders, trappers, and Indians. 1866 P. T. Barnum Humbugs of World xx. 173 Two or three traders in cheap jewelry and fancy-goods supplied the Funks with their wares. 1919 Outing Mar. 312/3 The French generally got along better with the natives because they were, for the most part, only traders. 1929 J. Garstang Hittite Empire ii. 42 It was left to the Keftian traders to carry on commercial intercourse that brought to Egypt the wares of Crete and Mycenae. 2012 Independent 24 Nov. 1/2 The Government provoked anger when it announced it would ease restrictions on..traders setting up ‘pop-up stalls’. b. In extended use. A person who deals in something abstract or immaterial, or who is occupied or concerned with something. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > one who engages in an activity or occupation > one who concerns himself with intermeddler1576 pedlar1593 trader1613 1613 H. Greenwood Treat. Day of Iudgem. (new ed.) sig. G4v Those that..eschew not the company of traders in iniquity. 1668 M. Hale Pref. Rolle's Abridgm. a j b The constant..course..of these great Traders in Learning, to bring in their several acquests therein..into a common Stock. 1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 144 The nonconformists were great traders in Scripture. 1710 J. Swift in J. Swift & R. Steele Tatler No. 230 The Traders in History and Politicks, and the Belles Lettres. a1721 M. Prior Charles & Clenard in Dialogues of Dead (1907) 216 Grammarians,..meer Traders in Gerunds and Retailers of Supines. 1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Piccolomini i. x. 42 That ancient trader In contraband negociations. 1889 Forum July 512 A mere trader in mendacity. 1966 New Society 12 May 11/2 Americans..have become traders in air, advertising men. 1986 Observer 20 July 7/2 The public opinion poll merchants—which is what they are, traders in percentages, dealers in figures. 2013 T. M. Kemple in T. Dufresne & C. Sacchetti Econ. as Cultural Syst. i. 20 Aspiring traders in ideas. c. Finance. A person or firm that buys and sells shares, currency, etc.; (now) esp. one that speculates on short-term movement in the market (frequently contrasted with investor). ΚΠ 1820 J. Brickwood Plan for reducing Capital & Ann. Charge National Debt 31 They invest their capital in Government securities as traders in stock, as other capitalists do in goods. 1893 N.-Y. Times 11 Apr. 7/3 Most of the smaller traders on the Stock Exchange are loaded up with stocks. 1917 Econ. World 28 Apr. 604/1 Here was encouragement enough for the bullish traders in cotton on the exchanges to resume their bidding up of prices. 1991 V. Sperandeo & T. S. Brown Trader Vic (1993) 37 The long-term trend..is of primary concern to the investor... The short-term trend is the least predictable and is of primary concern only to the trader. 2010 Daily Tel. 16 Feb. 23/6 In the end, traders can still game their bank's revenue to inflate their bonuses. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute meretrixOE whoreOE soiled dovea1250 common womanc1330 putec1384 bordel womanc1405 putaina1425 brothelc1450 harlot?a1475 public womanc1510 naughty pack?1529 draba1533 cat1535 strange woman1535 stew1552 causey-paikera1555 putanie?1566 drivelling1570 twigger1573 punka1575 hackney1579 customer1583 commodity1591 streetwalker1591 traffic1591 trug1591 hackster1592 polecat1593 stale1593 mermaid1595 medlar1597 occupant1598 Paphian1598 Winchester goose1598 pagan1600 hell-moth1602 aunt1604 moll1604 prostitution1605 community1606 miss1606 night-worm1606 bat1607 croshabell1607 prostitute1607 pug1607 venturer1607 nag1608 curtal1611 jumbler1611 land-frigate1611 walk-street1611 doll-common1612 turn-up1612 barber's chaira1616 commonera1616 public commonera1616 trader1615 venturea1616 stewpot1616 tweak1617 carry-knave1623 prostibule1623 fling-dusta1625 mar-taila1625 night-shadea1625 waistcoateera1625 night trader1630 coolera1632 meretrician1631 painted ladya1637 treadle1638 buttock1641 night-walker1648 mob?1650 lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651 lady of pleasure1652 trugmullion1654 fallen woman1659 girlc1662 high-flyer1663 fireship1665 quaedama1670 small girl1671 visor-mask1672 vizard-mask1672 bulker1673 marmalade-madam1674 town miss1675 town woman1675 lady of the night1677 mawks1677 fling-stink1679 Whetstone whore1684 man-leech1687 nocturnal1693 hack1699 strum1699 fille de joie1705 market-dame1706 screw1725 girl of (the) town1733 Cytherean1751 street girl1764 monnisher1765 lady of easy virtue1766 woman (also lady) of the town1766 kennel-nymph1771 chicken1782 stargazer1785 loose fish1809 receiver general1811 Cyprian1819 mollya1822 dolly-mop1834 hooker1845 charver1846 tail1846 horse-breaker1861 professional1862 flagger1865 cocodette1867 cocotte1867 queen's woman1871 common prostitute1875 joro1884 geisha1887 horizontal1888 flossy1893 moth1896 girl of the pavement1900 pross1902 prossie1902 pusher1902 split-arse mechanic1903 broad1914 shawl1922 bum1923 quiff1923 hustler1924 lady of the evening1924 prostie1926 working girl1928 prostisciutto1930 maggie1932 brass1934 brass nail1934 mud kicker1934 scupper1935 model1936 poule de luxe1937 pro1937 chromo1941 Tom1941 pan-pan1949 twopenny upright1958 scrubber1959 slack1959 yum-yum girl1960 Suzie Wong1962 mattress1964 jamette1965 ho1966 sex worker1971 pavement princess1976 parlour girl1979 crack whore1990 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado Ep. Ded. sig. A7 To all..Vshers, Panders, Suburbes Traders, Cockneies that haue manie fathers. 1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 39 I mean not Common Women, that live by Fornication, publick Traders. 1760 S. Foote Minor i. 44 Tip him an old trader, and give her to the knight. 1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield l. 511 Ha, ha! The liars that these traders are! 3. A ship or boat engaged in trading; a merchant vessel. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > [noun] merchant1585 trader1616 merchantman1627 merchanter1653 merchanteer1890 1616 T. Roe Let. 27 Nov. in Embassy to Great Mogul (1899) II. 353 You must be enforced to maynteyne a fleete for defence of the trader or hazard her yearly. 1712 London. Gaz. No. 5017/2 Ten sail of Irish Traders. 1750 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 567/1 A Graveland boat was run down by a French trader, and 29 persons drowned. 1827 J. F. Cooper Red Rover II. v. 124 The devil has been known to send one of his mates aboard a lawful trader, to lead her astray among shoals and quicksands. 1887 H. W. Daly Digging, Squatting, & Pioneering Life S. Austral. 296 The crews in the pearling schooners and small traders are very short-handed. 1912 D. Hannay Sea Trader iii. 60 The ship in which Brother Felix was pestered by the trampling of the horses was probably a round one—a mere trader. 2003 L. Kerstan Silver Lion xv. 118 One afternoon at the Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park proved unutterably duller than six months aboard a trader. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > other mediums of exchange > [noun] > token used in place of coin > issued by trader or company token-proprium1716 trader1776 token-money1890 1776 R. Twiss Tour Ireland 82 The want of small change (in 1727) was so great, that several persons were obliged to make copper and silver tokens, called Traders, which they passed as promissory notes among their workmen, customers, and neighbours. ΚΠ 1903 A. D. McFaul Ike Glidden in Maine viii. 66 All prosperous people there keep a ‘driver’ and a ‘trader’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1566 |
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