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merchant venturer
n. a late-medieval organiser of trading expeditions, especially one belonging to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Merchant%20Venturers
Usage examples of "merchant venturer".
Buy a packet of goods and ship as a merchant venturer for the New World.
It seemed every kid on the Island wanted to be a merchant venturer or explorer these days, the way they'd wanted to be astronauts or fossil-hunters when he was a boy back in the early sixties.
It seemed every kid on the Island wanted to be a merchant venturer or explorer these days, the way they’.
Dibbler, Merchant Venturer] and will be makinge lots of money really soon now.
Like my brother, I was a merchant venturer, investing in cargoes and often going along to handle the trading myself.