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Jewish people as shrewd and money-loving; derived from the character in Shakespeare's play "Merchant of Venice". [71] Yid: Europe: Jews Yiddish word for 'Jew'. [72] Zhyd. Zhydovka. Russia. Ukraine. Jews From Russian and other Slavic languages, originally neutral, but became pejorative during debate over the Jewish question in the 1800s. Its use ...
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
Merchants Insurance Group, an insurance company based in Buffalo, New York; Merchants Trust, a large British investment trust; Merchant International Group, a privately owned British strategic research and corporate intelligence company; Merchants Transportation Company, a defunct American shipping firm
A merchant is a person who trades in goods produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries. Merchants have been known for as long as humans have engaged in trade and commerce. Merchants and merchant networks operated in ancient Babylonia, Assyria, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Persia, Phoenicia and Rome.
A merchant seaman qualified to perform all routine duties on a vessel, or a junior rank in some navies. aboard On or in a vessel. Synonymous with "on board". See also close aboard. about To change the course of a ship by tacking. "Ready about" is the order to prepare for tacking. [8] above board On or above the deck; in plain view; not hiding ...
In literature there are many synonyms for the attribute honorable. To be named are the true, good, genuine, honorable, honest, moral, ideal, ethical or moral acting and even the royal [1] merchant. The term honor is not an absolute term. It is strongly subject to historical change. [2] An exact definition is therefore not possible.
A shopkeeper in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico. A shopkeeper is a retail merchant or tradesman; one who owns or operates a small store or shop. [1] Generally, shop employees are not shopkeepers, but are often incorrectly referred to as such.
Medieval merchants, active before the Renaissance. Subcategories. This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total. 0–9. 7th-century merchants (7 P)