free trader

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English

Etymology

From free trade + -er (supporter).

Noun

free trader (plural free traders)

  1. A person in favor of free trade.
    • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
      All the street-sellers in question are what street estimation pronounces to be educated men; they can all, as far as I could ascertain, read and write, and some of them were “keenish politicians, both free-traders, and against free-trade when they was a-talking of the better days when they was young.”

Descendants

  • Belarusian: фрытрэ́дэр (frytréder)
  • Russian: фритре́дер (fritréder)
  • Ukrainian: фритре́дер (frytréder)

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