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MERCHANDISER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A businessperson engaged in retail trade
Synonyms:
merchandiser; merchant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("merchandiser" is a kind of...):
bourgeois; businessperson (a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "merchandiser"):
vintner; wine merchant (someone who sells wine)
merchant-venturer; venturer (a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas))
bargainer; dealer; monger; trader (someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold)
stationer; stationery seller (a merchant who sells writing materials and office supplies)
market keeper; shopkeeper; storekeeper; tradesman (a merchant who owns or manages a shop)
marketer; seller; trafficker; vender; vendor (someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money)
schlockmeister; shlockmeister ((slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise)
salt merchant; salter (someone who makes or deals in salt)
rug merchant (a merchant who sells rugs)
retail merchant; retailer (a merchant who sells goods at retail)
poulterer; poultryman (a dealer in poultry and poultry products)
jeweler; jeweller (someone in the business of selling jewelry)
hatmaker; hatter; milliner; modiste (someone who makes and sells hats)
grocer (a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies))
grain merchant (a merchant who deals in food grains)
clothier; haberdasher (a merchant who sells men's clothing)
butcher; meatman (a retailer of meat)
book seller; bookdealer (a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books)
baker (someone who bakes commercially)
Instance hyponyms:
Charles Henry Harrod; Harrod (English merchant who took over a shop in London that was expanded by his son into a prestigious department store (1800-1885))
Charles Digby Harrod; Harrod (English merchant who expanded his father's shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905))
Derivation:
merchandise (engage in the trade of)
