A person who traffics in commodities for profit. / The owner or operator of a retail business. / A trading vessel; a merchantman.

As a resident of a region, to buy goods from a non-resident and sell them to another non-resident.

plural of merchant

Fit for the market, i.e. suitable for selling for an ordinary price. Sometimes, this is a technical designation for a particular kind or class.

The state of being merchantable

present participle of merchant

simple past tense and past participle of merchant

A surname.

Quality of being merchantable.

A businessman employed at, or a partner at a merchant bank. / (chiefly Britain, rhyming slang) A wanker. (In this sense, the term can also be abbreviated to merchant.)