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Huckster

A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker.

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Advertiser 76% connected

One who, or that which, advertises.

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Bargain 76% connected

An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property f…

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Deal 76% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Dicker 76% connected

The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves.

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Marketer 76% connected

One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.

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Sell 76% connected

Self.

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Seller 76% connected

One who sells.

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Trade 76% connected

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

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Trafficker 76% connected

One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.

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Vender 76% connected

One who vends; one who transfers the exclusive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent, for a price or pecuniary…

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Vendor 76% connected

A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.

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Dealer 74% connected

One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in d…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dealer 74% connected

One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in d…

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Synonym 9

Chaffer 92% connected

One who chaffs.

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Cheap-jack 92% connected

Alt. of Cheap-john

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Haggle 92% connected

To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a st…

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Hawk 92% connected

One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Higgle 92% connected

To hawk or peddle provisions.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Monger 92% connected

A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger.

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Peddle 92% connected

To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a l…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pitch 92% connected

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Vend 92% connected

To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vege…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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