(historical or figuratively) A mercantile plutocrat: a man who wields great de facto political power by virtue of economic assets derived from trade and commerce.

(historical) A late-medieval organiser of trading expeditions, especially one belonging to the Society of Merchant Venturers.

A tailor who keeps and sells materials for the garments which he makes.

A purveyor of sleaze; one who sells immoral material

a fleet of merchant ships, calculated either on a country-by-country basis, or on a global basis.

plural of merchant fleet

(historical) A member of the Levant Company or Turkey Company, an English chartered company formed in 1581 to conduct English trade with Turkey and the Levant or its successors, dissolved in 1825.

(idiomatic) Someone who runs, drives or moves in a given way very fast.

Synonym of scrap dealer.

plural of merchant marine