trader

noun

trad·​er ˈtrā-dər How to pronounce trader (audio)
1
: a person whose business is buying and selling or barter: such as
a
b
: a person who buys and sells (something, such as stocks or commodities futures) in search of short-term profits
2
: a ship engaged in the coastal or foreign trade

Examples of trader in a Sentence

She is a stock trader. early explorers and fur traders
Recent Examples on the Web Last month, traders lost $126 million betting against Trump Media, according to S3. Joe Rennison, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024 Following the manufacturing data, traders on Wall Street briefly trimmed bets on the first cut to rates coming as soon as June. Zimo Zhong, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024 Native to much of California, beavers were hunted to near extinction throughout North America by fur traders in the 1800s. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024 However, Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, has begun gradually opening up the bitcoin and crypto market to traders, creating an avenue that could allow money to flood in. Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024 In 2021, the price of GameStop climbed nearly 700%, driven in part by traders discussing the company on a Reddit chatroom called Wall Street Bets. Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2024 That’s not so different from the online traders, mom-and-pop investors, small brokers and others who organized on social media platform Reddit to drive up the price of GameStop and face down hedge funds that were betting against the company and shorting the stock. Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024 For months, traders on Wall Street have been trying to get ahead of the Federal Reserve and guess when cuts to rates will arrive. Yuri Kageyama, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024 Western commodity traders and banks, such as Glencore, Trafigura and Standard Chartered, also have funded oil-for-cash deals, notably with the Republic of Congo, Chad and Angola. Taiwo Adebayo, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1566, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of trader was in 1566

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“Trader.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trader. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

Kids Definition

trader

noun
trad·​er ˈtrād-ər How to pronounce trader (audio)
1
: a person who trades
2
: a ship engaged in trade

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