trader

noun

trad·er ˈtrā-dər

Synonyms of trader next

: a person whose business is buying and selling or barter: such as

: merchant

: a person who buys and sells (something, such as stocks or commodities futures) in search of short-term profits

: a ship engaged in the coastal or foreign trade

Examples of trader in a Sentence

She is a stock trader. early explorers and fur traders

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Her barely teenage mother disappeared when Smith was still a toddler; her much older father, a horse trader, moved frequently, taking his young daughter with him. —

News Desk, Artforum, 30 Jan. 2025 She was born in 1940 on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, where she was raised by her father, a horse trader. —

Christian Allaire, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2025 Her father was a horse trader; her mother left when Smith was still two years old. —

Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 28 Jan. 2025 There was money to be made in the region—from cotton, wheat, and, more recently, oil—and his father had built a thriving business as a livestock trader, able to comfortably support seventeen children. —

Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for trader