Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| acater | (Obs.) an officer who buys provisions; a chandler. |
| acatour | (Obs.) an officer who buys provisions; a chandler. |
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes. |
| baker | one that bakes. |
| barter | to trade. |
| barterer | one who barters. |
| baxter | (Obs.) a baker. |
| beerage | brewers collectively, the brewing industry. |
| bibliopole | (Arch.) a bookseller. |
| bibliopolic | relating to a bibliopole, a dealer esp in rare books. |
| bibliopolical | relating to a bibliopole, a dealer esp in rare books. |
| bibliopolist | a bookseller. |
| bibliopoly | bookselling. |
| bookseller | one that sells books. |
| bookselling | the profession of selling books. |
| botanica | (Lat.) a shop that sells herbs and magic charms. |
| bouquetiere | (Fr.) a flower-girl. |
| brewer | one that brews. |
| brewster | (Scots) a brewer. |
| brinjarry | (Hindi) a travelling dealer in grain and salt in S. India. |
| broke | to bargain, negotiate. |
| bummaree | a middleman in Billingsgate fish-market. |
| bunia | (Hindi) an (Indian) corn-merchant. |
| bunnia | (Hindi) an (Indian) corn-merchant. |
| butcher | one who cuts up and sells meat (verb) to slaughter |
| butcherly | like a butcher, savage, bloody. |
| callback | a recall of a defective product. |
| capper | one whose business is to make or sell caps. |
| carte | (Fr.) a bill of fare. |
| chaebol | (Korean) a large family owned business in Korea. |
| chaffer | to haggle, bargain with. |
| chafferer | a vendor who enjoys talking while making a sale. |
| chaffery | haggling, bargaining. |
| chandler | a maker of candles; a dealer in a specified type of goods (as in corn-chandler, ship-chandler). |
| chandlering | the profession of chandler. |
| chandlerly | like a chandler, petty. |
| chapman | a peddler. |
| chapmanship | the profession of chapman. |
| cheapjack | a travelling hawker who professes to give a great bargain. |
| cheesemonger | one who sells cheeses. |
| chocolatier | one who sells chocolate. |
| closeout | a clearance sale. |
| coalman | one who delivers coal. |
| coff | (Scots) to buy. |
| colourman | a person who prepares or sells paints. |
| comanchero | (Spanish) in the 19th century, a person who traded with the Plains Indians. |
| commodification | the act of commodifying. |
| commodify | to make a commodity of something. |
| comprador | (Port.) a native agent or intermediary through whom a foreign power trades. |
| compradore | (Port.) a native agent or intermediary through whom a foreign power trades. |
| confiseur | (Fr.) a confectioner. |
| consigner | the person named in the bill of lading as the one from whom the goods have been received for shipment. |
| consignor | the person named in the bill of lading as the one from whom the goods have been received for shipment. |
| costardmonger | a hawker of fruits, vegetables, fish, etc.. |
| coster | a seller of fruit and vegetables. |
| costermonger | a hawker of fruits, vegetables, fish, etc.. |
| costumer | one who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc. |
| costumier | one who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc. |
| counterman | (Arch.) a man who attends at the counter of a shop to sell goods. |
| couper | (Scots) a dealer. |
| deacon | in Episcopal churches, a member of the order of clergy under priests; (verb) to put the best looking goods on top of the pile. |
| dealer | one that deals. |
| dealership | an authorized sales agency. |
| debouche | a place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods. |
| denet | to market a book with retailers determining their own price. |
| doorstepper | a salesman who tries to sell on the doorstep. |
| dotcommer | a person who carries out business on the Internet. |
| draper | a dealer in cloth, textiles and clothing. |
| drysalter | a seller of dry goods and chemicals. |
| drysaltery | the articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter. |
| ecommerce | business conducted on the internet. |
| eggler | (Arch.) an egg-dealer. |
| epicier | (Fr.) a grocer. |
| fellmonger | a dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts; (verb) to sell skins. |
| fishmonger | a dealer in fish. |
| fishwife | a woman who sells fish; a scurrilously abusive woman. |
| fishwifely | like a fishwife, vituperative. |
| flesher | a butcher. |
| floorwalker | a person employed in a retail store to oversee the salespeople and aid customers. |
| florist | a cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers. |
| floristry | the art of cultivating and selling flowers. |
| flypitcher | one who runs a flypitch, a market stall for which an operator has no licence. |
| fripper | (Arch.) one who deals in frippery or in old clothes. |
| fripperer | (Arch.) one who deals in frippery or in old clothes. |
| friseur | (Fr.) a hairdresser. |
| fruiterer | one who sells fruit. |
| fruiteress | a woman who sells fruit. |
| furrier | a dealer in furs. |
| giftware | goods produced for purchase as gifts. |
| glassman | a maker or seller of glass. |
| greengrocer | a retailer of fresh vegetables and fruit. |
| grocer | a dealer in foodstuffs and household supplies. |
| grocery | a grocer's store. |
| haberdasher | a dealer in men's clothing; a dealer in small sewing articles. |
| handlanger | (S. Afr) an unskilled assistant to a tradesman. |
| hansa | a guild of merchants. |
| hanse | a guild of merchants. |
| hanseatic | relating to the hansa, a guild of merchants. |
| hardwareman | one who sells hardware. |
| hockshop | a pawnshop. |
| hosier | a person who makes or deals in hose or stockings, or in these and knitted or woven underwear. |
| huckster | a retailer in a small shop or at a stall; a pedlar, a hawker (verb) to peddle |
| hucksterage | the state of being a huckster. |
| hucksteress | a female huckster. |
| hucksterism | being a huckster. |
| huckstery | the business of a huckster. |
| huckstress | a female huckster. |
| importer | one that imports. |
| interfirm | between firms. |
| ironmonger | a dealer in ironware. |
| jeweler | one who makes, or deals in, jewels, precious stones, and similar ornaments. |
| jeweller | one who makes, or deals in, jewels, precious stones, and similar ornaments. |
| junkman | a dealer in junk. |
| kalewife | a female vegetable vendor. |
| kiddier | a huckster; a cadger. |
| libraire | (Fr.) a bookseller. |
| magalog | (Coll.) a large mail-order catalog in the form of a magazine. |
| maltster | one who makes or deals in malt. |
| marcantant | (Shakesp.) a merchant. |
| markdown | the act of labelling an article with a lower price than before. |
| marketeer | one who markets. |
| marketer | one that markets. |
| mart | a market; (verb, Shakespeare) to sell, trade. |
| meatman | a seller of butcher's meat. |
| meatpacker | (US) a person or company involved in the wholesale meat trade. |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading. |
| mercer | a dealer in textiles, esp silk and other fine materials. |
| mercery | the trade of mercers; the goods in which a mercer deals. |
| merchandiser | one who sells merchandise. |
| merchant | a trader, esp wholesale; (verb) to trade as a merchant. |
| merchantlike | (Shakesp.) like a merchant. |
| merchantry | the body of merchants taken collectively. |
| middlings | goods, esp flour, cotton, or minerals, which have been sorted according to quality into the second of three grades. |
| midinette | (Fr.) a French, esp a Parisian, shopgirl; esp a milliner's assistant. |
| midlist | books on a publisher's list that sell reasonably well. |
| milkman | a man who sells or delivers milk. |
| milko | (Aust. sl.) a milkman. |
| miller | one that mills. |
| milliner | a hatmaker. |
| millinery | hat-making. |
| modiste | (Fr.) a maker or seller of fashionable dresses and hats. |
| monger | a trader; a dealer; now chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger; (verb) to peddle. |
| mongery | trading in a particular line of goods. |
| multipack | a pack containing several of a given item, usually at a reduced price. |
| negociant | (Fr.) a merchant esp a wine merchant. |
| newsagent | one who sells newspapers etc. |
| newstrade | the business of newsagents. |
| newsy | full of news; abounding in information as to current events (noun) a newsagent; a newsboy |
| nundinal | relating to a fair or market. |
| outfitter | a person who deals in clothing, haberdashery, sporting equipment, etc. |
| outtrade | to surpass in trading. |
| overtrade | to trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for them. |
| packman | one who bears a pack; a peddler. |
| pastrycook | a maker or seller of pastry. |
| patissier | (Fr.) a maker or seller of fancy cakes. |
| pawnage | an act of pawning. |
| pearmonger | a seller of pears. |
| peatman | a carter or seller of peat. |
| pedder | (Scots) a pedlar. |
| peddler | a person who goes about carrying small goods for sale, esp one who goes from door to door with the goods in a pack. |
| peddlery | the trade of peddler. |
| pedlar | a person who goes about carrying small goods for sale, esp one who goes from door to door with the goods in a pack. |
| pedlary | the trade of pedlar. |
| pedler | a person who goes about carrying small goods for sale, esp one who goes from door to door with the goods in a pack. |
| pedlery | the trade of pedlar. |
| peltmonger | a dealer in skins. |
| pepperer | a dealer in pepper and spices. |
| perfumer | a person engaged in making or selling perfumes. |
| perfumier | a person engaged in making or selling perfumes. |
| pether | (Scots) a pedlar. |
| pharma | pharmaceutical companies considered together as a company. |
| pieman | one who sells pies. |
| piepowder | (Obs.) a wayfarer, esp an itinerant merchant or trader. |
| pitchman | a street or market trader. |
| pitchperson | a street or market trader. |
| pitchwoman | a (female) street or market trader. |
| plumassier | (Fr.) a worker in feathers; a feather-seller. |
| pothecary | an apothecary. |
| poticary | an apothecary. |
| pottingar | (Scots) an apothecary. |
| poulter | (Arch.) a dealer in dead fowls and game. |
| poulterer | a dealer in dead fowls and game. |
| proveditor | a purveyor. |
| proveditore | a purveyor. |
| provedor | a purveyor. |
| provedore | a purveyor. |
| providor | a purveyor. |
| provisioner | a furnisher of provisions. |
| provisor | (Hist.) one who provides; a purveyor. |
| rabbito | (Aust. sl.) an itinerant seller of rabbits for eating. |
| rabbitoh | (Aust. sl.) an itinerant seller of rabbits for eating. |
| ragman | a man who collects, or deals in, rags (obs.) a document with pendent seals |
| reexport | to export again, as what has been imported. |
| ripper | (Obs.) a person who carries fish inland to sell. |
| rippier | (Obs.) a person who carries fish inland to sell. |
| routeman | (US) a shopkeeper's roundsman. |
| salesclerk | a salesperson in a store. |
| salesgirl | a woman who sells merchandise. |
| saleslady | a woman who sells merchandise. |
| salesman | a man who sells merchandise. |
| salesperson | a salesman or saleswoman. |
| saleswoman | a woman who sells in a given territory, in a store, or by telephone. |
| sammy | an Indian fruit and vegetable seller who goes from house to house. |
| scorse | (Obs.) to exchange. |
| scorser | one who barters. |
| scourse | to barter, exchange. |
| seedman | a dealer in seeds. |
| seedsman | a dealer in seeds. |
| sellout | a state where all goods or tickets have been sold. |
| shill | an accomplice to a tradesman etc. who acts as a stooge; (verb) to be a stooge. |
| shillaber | an accomplice to a tradesman etc. who acts as a stooge. |
| shopboy | a boy employed in a shop. |
| shopgirl | a salesgirl. |
| shopkeeper | one who keeps a shop. |
| shopkeeping | the occupation of keeping a shop. |
| shopman | one who owns or operates a small store. |
| shoppy | abounding with shops (noun) a shop assistant |
| shopwalker | a person employed by a departmental store to supervise sales personnel, assist customers, etc. |
| shopwoman | a woman who works in a shop. |
| smouse | (Yiddish) a Jew; (verb) in S. Africa, to trade as a pedlar. |
| smouser | (Afrikaans) in S. Africa, a pedlar. |
| spicer | (Obs.) a dealer in spices; an apothecary. |
| stallenger | (Hist.) a keeper of a stall; a person who paid for the privilege of trading in a burgh of which he was not a freeman. |
| stallholder | one who manages a stall at which articles are sold. |
| stallinger | (Hist.) a keeper of a stall; a person who paid for the privilege of trading in a burgh of which he was not a freeman. |
| stallman | one who keeps a stall for the sale of merchandise, esp books. |
| stapler | a merchant of a staple; a person who grades and deals in wool. |
| stationer | one who sells stationery. |
| stockist | a shopkeeper who stocks a specific line. |
| stockkeeper | one that keeps and records stock, as in a warehouse. |
| storekeeper | one that has charge of supplies, as military stores. |
| storekeeping | the business of keeping a store. |
| subdealer | a dealer who buys from other dealers. |
| subsale | a resale of purchased goods. |
| supersale | a big sale. |
| supersalesman | an exceptional salesman. |
| sutler | (Hist.) a merchant who follows an army to sell provisions to the soldiers. |
| sutlership | the office of sutler, one who sells liquor or provisions to soldiers. |
| sutlery | the office of sutler, one who sells liquor or provisions to soldiers. |
| suttle | subtle (verb) to trade as a sutler |
| suttly | (Milton) subtly. |
| swaption | a swap option. |
| tallyman | a person who keeps a tallyshop. |
| tapster | a person who draws and serves ale or other alcoholic drinks at an inn, bar, etc. |
| tapstress | a female tapster. |
| tobacconist | a dealer in tobacco esp at retail. |
| touter | one who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like. |
| toyman | one who deals in toys. |
| toywoman | a (female) seller of toys. |
| tradable | that can be traded. |
| trade | an occupation, way of livelihood, esp skilled but not learned; commerce; (verb) to give in exchange for another commodity. |
| tradeable | that can be traded. |
| tradecraft | skill or expertise in the practice of a trade. |
| tradeful | (Spenser) busy in traffic. |
| tradeless | having no trade or traffic. |
| trader | one who trades. |
| tradership | the occupation of trader. |
| tradesfolk | people employed in trade. |
| tradesman | one who makes a living from trade. |
| tradesmanlike | like a tradesman. |
| tradespeople | people engaged in trade. |
| tradesperson | a man or woman in trade > TRADESPEOPLE or TRADESPERSONS. |
| tradeswoman | a woman employed in trade. |
| tradie | (Aust. sl.) a tradesman or tradeswoman. |
| trafficker | one who traffics. |
| trant | to traffic in an itinerant manner; to peddle. |
| tranter | one who trants; a peddler; a carrier. |
| truckman | one who does business in the way of barter or exchange. |
| truckmaster | an officer in charge of trade with American Indians esp among the early settlers. |
| twofer | something sold at the price of two for one. |
| undercut | to offer goods at a lower price than a competitor. |
| unguentary | of or relating to unguents; (noun) one who makes or sells unguents. |
| vendeuse | (Fr.) a saleswoman. |
| venditation | offering for sale. |
| victualer | one who furnishes victuals. |
| victualler | one who furnishes victuals. |
| vintner | a person who deals in or sells wine, a wine-merchant. |
| vivandiere | (Fr.) a (female) attendant on a regiment, who sells provisions. |
| voyageur | (Fr.) in Canada a person who kept up communication by canoe between trading-posts. |
| wanworth | (Scots) a very low price, a bargain. |
| wholesaler | someone who sells by wholesale. |
| woolman | one who deals in wool. |
| yagger | (Scots) a pedlar. |