Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The business of a merchant.
- noun The body of merchants taken collectively: as, the merchantry of a country.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The body of merchants taken collectively.
- noun The business of a merchant; merchandise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated The body of
merchants taken collectively. - noun dated The
business of amerchant ;merchandise .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Depending upon who they get to go out and rebut, they could end up doing real damage to Corsi and his slime-merchantry.
Obama Campaign Mapping Out Aggressive Counter-Attack Against Swift-Boating 2009
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The original plan of the merchantry comprehended the erection of the jail in close proximity to the home of its chief official, but Mr. Crow put his foot flatly and ponderously upon the scheme.
The Daughter of Anderson Crow George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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Wish human wit, which is really very considerable in mechanics and merchantry, could devise some method of cultivating canes and making sugar without the manual labour of the human "species.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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