Definition of "merchants" []

• Plural form of merchant. (noun)

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• "As there are several degrees of people employed in trade below these, such as workmen, labourers, and servants, so there is a degree of traders above them, which we call merchants; where it is needful to observe, that in other countries, and even in the north of Britain and"
• "The latest from Mr Brown's sleaze merchants is that some Labour Lords are being accused of offering to put for amendments to government bills for a fee."
• "Even in remote areas there is no village without merchants from the two provinces."