Other forms: traders
A trader is somebody who buys and sells for a living. A market trader, a City trader, sole trader.
It covers a stall on a market and a desk in a bank alike. In Britain a sole trader is a legal status: somebody in business on their own account with no company between them and the debts, which is the point of the distinction.
1nountraderSomebody who buys and sells for a living.
“The traders loaded their camels with silk and spices for the long journey across the desert.”
trader is a person.
Old Saxon
trada
Middle Low German
trade
Middle English
trade
English
trade
English, today
trader
From trade + -er. trade comes from Middle English trade, from Middle Low German trade, from Old Saxon trada. From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-West Germanic tradu, from Proto-Germanic tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European dreh₂- (“to tread, walk, step, run”). Cognate with Dutch trade, tra (“path, trail, course, trade”), German Low German Traad (“track, wagon trail”), lb Tratt (“step, pace”), Icelandic tröð (“a lane between fences, enclosure, pen”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA