"small trader" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to a person who owns or operates a small business or engages in trading goods or services on a smaller scale. Example: The local market was bustling with small traders selling their handmade crafts and goods.
My father was a small trader who made trips to Kabul.
In the field of government bonds, called "gilts," Merrill chose to buy a small trader, A.B. Giles & Cresswell, to gain immediate access to that market.
Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani was born on Dec. 28, 1932, the son of a small trader in a remote village in rural Gujarat.
"At the end of the second year [of saving], I used my savings to buy a bicycle for myself," says Jane Anaso, a mother of five, farmer and small trader.
"For the first time in my life, I can go to Colombo without wondering if I'll make it back; I can send my children to school without wondering whether I'll see them again," said V.P. Anand, a small trader in the general's hometown.
It's easy to smirk at the "greengrocer's apostrophe" – the shop that uses an apostrophe to indicate a plural ("pea's"), often omitting one when it is actually required ("new seasons asparagus") – but a small trader worried about where the next delivery of purple sprouting broccoli is coming from has got more excuse than a huge multinational business that makes a profit of £1bn a year.
Increasingly these small traders have had company.
In Senegal, small traders shared market spaces.
This shift in attitudes is helping small traders.
Even the small farmers will be the small traders, the small traders … our farmers will do the processing.
Small traders began to take over the transfer of rural food products to the towns.
