Merchant vs Butlerage - What's the difference?
merchant | butlerage |
A person who traffics in commodities for profit.
The owner or operator of a retail business.
A trading vessel; a merchantman.
* 1611 , , II. i. 5:
As a resident of a region, to buy goods from a non-resident and sell them to another non-resident.
(legal, archaic) A duty formerly paid to the king's butler on every tun of wine imported into England by foreign merchants.
As a proper noun merchant
is .As a noun butlerage is
(legal|archaic) a duty formerly paid to the king's butler on every tun of wine imported into england by foreign merchants.merchant
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(wikipedia merchant)Alternative forms
* merchaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Every day, some sailor's wife, / The masters of some merchant', and the ' merchant , / Have just our theme of woe.
Derived terms
* merchantable * merchant bank * merchant banker * merchant flag * merchant fleet * merchantman * merchant marine * mercantile * merchant navy * merchant prince * merchant seaman * merchant ship * merchant tailor * wine merchantVerb
(en verb)- a merchanting service
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