Word Meanings - MERCAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Market; trade. Bp. Sprat.

Related words: (words related to MERCAT)

• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• MARKETSTEAD
  A market place. Drayton.
• TRADESFOLK
  People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• TRADED
  Professional; practiced. Shak.
• TRADELESS
  Having no trade or traffic. Young.
• TRADES-UNIONIST; TRADE-UNIONIST
  A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.
• TRADER
  1. One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader. 2. A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.
• MARKETABLE
  1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable. 2. Current in market; as, marketable value. 3. Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country.
• TRADESCANTIA
  A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.
• TRADESWOMAN
  A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.
• TRADESMAN
  1. One who trades; a shopkeeper. 2. A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands. Burrill.
• TRADE NAME
  The name by which an article is called among traders, etc.; as, tin spirits is a common trade name in the dyeing industry for various solutions of tin salts. An invented or arbitrary adopted name given by a manufacturer or merchant to an article
• MARKET
  The privelege granted to a town of having a public market. Note: Market is often used adjectively, or in forming compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market day, market folk, market house, marketman, market place, market price, market
• MARKETING
  1. The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market. 2. Articles in, or from, a market; supplies.
• TRADE
  The trade winds. 9. Refuse or rubbish from a mine. Syn. -- Profession; occupation; office; calling; avocation; employment; commerce; dealing; traffic. Board of trade. See under Board. -- Trade dollar. See under Dollar. -- Trade price, the price
• TRADES UNION; TRADE UNION
  An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.
• SPRAT
  A small European herring closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds. A California surf-fish ; -- called also alfione, and perch. Sprat borer , the
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• NEWMARKET
  A long, closely fitting cloak.
• BALUSTRADE
  A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.
• TETRADECANE
  A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.
• OVERTRADE
  To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.