"big merchant" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a large business. For example, "The big merchant was able to negotiate competitive prices for their customers."
We have fought against the big merchant banks.
In Kolkata in those days, the West was evident everywhere, but it was the old, British edition: jute mills, tramcars, tea dealers and big merchant companies.
"But if a big merchant jumping into some mobile payment solution signals to other merchants that there is an opportunity here," he added, "that might change the psychology for other merchants".
Other good sources of Saint-Joseph are the big merchant houses of the Northern Rhône, including Guigal, Chapoutier and Delas, which tend to produce several quality levels of wine from the appellation.
As a result, Rolls-Royce could bolt its marine-propulsion systems on to the back of "marinised" versions of big-jet aircraft engines; at a stroke, it was able to supply a complete propulsion system for warships and big merchant ships.
There's enough traffic, at any rate, to guarantee work for Eric Ward, a lawyer who has a rich wife and a stake in a big merchant bank but maintains an old-fashioned commitment to his own "miserable practice in Newcastle, dealing with the grubby underbelly of Tyneside life".
There is no cost to the customer, but those who run small Web sites that funnel sales to the big merchants say that they are being hurt.
For one thing, Ms. Shah said, MSN intentionally works with fewer big merchants -- about 150, compared with about 200 each for AOL and Yahoo.
Big merchants, including Amazon.com and Sam's Club, made advance sales at discounts of $8 to $12 off the DVD's suggested $29.98 price.
The taipans, the big merchants in Hong Kong, may have maintained a color bar against the Chinese, but that was the exception, not the rule.
Federalists like Hamilton, Wood wrote, "never really understood the way the American economy was developing," and "tended to favor big merchants and financiers and to ignore artisans, small businessmen, and farmers".
