{
    "term": "merchant",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person who buys and sells goods in large quantities, especially one who imports and exports goods",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **coal/wine merchant**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Venice was once a city of rich merchants."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Jobs"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["prosperous", "rich", "wealthy"],
                "merchant + noun": ["fleet", "marine", "navy"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person who sells goods to the public, especially through a store",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The credit cards are accepted by 10 million merchants worldwide."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a person who likes a particular activity",
            "labels": "(British English, informal, disapproving)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a speed merchant *(= somebody who likes to drive fast)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "noise merchants *(= for example, a band who make a lot of noise)*"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person who predicts that things will go very badly",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The doom merchants who said television would kill off the book were wrong."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person who predicts that things will go very badly",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The prophets of doom who said television would kill off the book were wrong."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmɜːtʃənt/",
                "audio": "me/merchant/merchant__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmɜːrtʃənt/",
                "audio": "me/merchant/merchant__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French marchant, based on Latin mercari ‘to trade’, from merx, merc- ‘merchandise’."
}