trader

«trader» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who buys and sells goods to make money, such as… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a trader, traders)

meaning for a pupil

1) A trader is a person who buys and sells goods to make money, such as a market trader. tree →

2) (money) A trader is a person who buys and sells shares, money or other goods on a stock market. tree →

3) (history) Traders carried goods like spices, silk and furs between faraway lands. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons, traders travel the Silk Road, and Viking traders sail to new lands. In everyday life, market traders call out prices and give change; in maths problems, traders buy at one price and sell at a higher one, and the difference is profit. Phrases: market trader, street trader, sole trader (a one-person business), fur trader.

examples

• The market trader sold apples three for a pound. tree →
• Viking traders sailed far to sell furs. tree →
• A trader buys low and sells high to make a profit. tree →
• The fruit trader gave me an extra orange. tree →
• Traders on the Silk Road carried silk from China. tree →
• Dad is a sole trader who runs his own plumbing business. tree →
• "What is the price of this cloth?" one trader will ask another. tree →

note

Countable. Verb trade (traded). Maths: profit = selling price − buying price; if the trader sells for less, it is a loss. Trap: trader vs traitor (a person who betrays) — they sound a little alike.

In the corpora

• Few traders travelled the whole Silk Road; goods usually passed from merchant to merchant and market to market.
• In the 1200s and 1300s the Mongol Empire controlled most of the Silk Road, making it safer for traders to cross.
• Japan chose another path and from the 1630s shut its doors to most foreigners, letting only Dutch and Chinese traders in at Nagasaki.
• Roman soldiers and traders came from all over the empire, and some soldiers on Hadrian's Wall came from Iraq and North Africa.
• A ruler's stamp on a coin promised its weight, so traders did not need to weigh metal every time.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «trader» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.