The word 'merchant' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to someone who sells or trades goods or services for money or other goods and services. For example, "The merchant sold us a variety of items, including fish, vegetables, and spices."
David Stevens's first job was as a trainee in a merchant bank, and his great claim to fame was in building up a pension fund manager, Montagu Investment Management (MIM), which became a sizeable and profitable company.
It was reported this week that Paul Miller, the former Tottenham defender, has been recruited by a leading merchant bank to head a division that will help professional footballers organise their bloated incomes.
"Value-added tax receipts issued to customers will list a unique identifier for the merchant.
Challenged by Newsweek Europe about his belief that only electricians, merchant bankers and people without HIV should be admitted to Britain, Farage said: "There are 190 countries in the world that operate like that.
A 46-year-old local timber merchant who became a Ukip councillor in 2013, Huntman revels in a self-identified "outsider" status.
Our director's masterstroke for Merchant was a mime sequence to open the play - Bassanio striding on to gaze at Portia's portrait, Shylock jangling a money pouch from a balcony window, Antonio scanning the horizon with a telescope for his fleet of ships - each character miming a silent vignette of their forthcoming journey through the play, all to a tape of olde worlde crumhorn music.
Heshmat, a 60-year-old carpet merchant in south-central Tehran, reflected one popular take on Qaboos's trip.
"Cosco's presence in the port of Pireaus … has brought great benefits to the Greek public sector," the merchant marine minister Miltiades Varvitsiotis said last week as he dismissed suggestions that Beijing was exploiting Greece because of the bargain prices at which much of its infrastructure was being sold.
That's generally not the case with US local sales receipts," says Kane. "They may list the merchant name but no unique number related to sales tax collection".
On the way to the US, he passed through Nazi checkpoints in Paris posing as a cheese merchant.
These days he acts as RTÉ's resident wind-up merchant and pundit extraordinaire.
