Sentence examples for as merchant from inspiring English sources

Both as merchant and as public official he traveled widely.

Some engaged in commerce and formed groups known as merchant guilds.

His ancestors came to N.Y. from Bavaria in the early middle 1800s & set themselves up as merchant bankers.

I had the choice of outstanding schools, such as Merchant Taylors' and Haberdashers' near my home in London.

Many Cabo Verdeans work as merchant mariners or longshoremen in the major diasporic communities in Dakar, Senegal, southeastern New England, Rotterdam, and Lisbon.

As merchant vessels, they plied mostly coastal trading routes, but oceanic voyages were not uncommon; some brigs were even used for whaling and sealing.

The House of Representatives is mulling a bill that would cap these "swipe fees", known in the industry as merchant-interchange fees.

But many critics and movie-makers detested what they regarded as Merchant-Ivory's ersatz classiness, their uncritical, touristic approach to fine buildings and fancy manners, and their seeming indifference to the hidden cruelties of class division.

Still other high-status slaves worked as merchants.

They are residents there as well as merchants.

Jews served as merchants, silk dyers and, often, as court musicians to the Muslim emirs.