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Peddler

One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker.

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Chapman 76% connected

One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller.

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Cheapjack 76% connected

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Crier 76% connected

One who cries; one who makes proclamation.

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Packman 76% connected

One who bears a pack; a peddler.

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Criminal 76% connected

Guilty of crime or sin.

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Crook 76% connected

A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

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Dealer 76% 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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Felon 76% connected

A person who has committed a felony.

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Malefactor 76% connected

An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.

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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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Outlaw 76% connected

A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.

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Seller 76% connected

One who sells.

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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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Peddle 74% 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…

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Peddle 74% 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…

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Synonym 3

Hawker 92% connected

One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.

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Pedlar 92% connected

Alt. of Pedler

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Pusher 92% connected

One who, or that which, pushes.

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