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Free-trader. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Free-trader 1.  One allowed to trade without restriction.

1 1698.  J. Fryer, A New Account of East-India and Persia, 86. Lest the New Company should be exclaimed against as too greedy Monopolizers, they permit Free Traders on their Island Bombaim.

2 1851.  Mayhew, Lond. Labour, I. 375. He [the pedlar] was, as it were, the first ‘free-trader’; increasing the facilities for the interchange of commodities, without regard to market dues or tolls.

3   b.  (See quot.)

4 1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Free Trader. Ships trading formerly under license to India independent of the old East India Company’s Charter. Also, a common woman.

5   2.  A smuggler; also, a smuggling vessel.

6 1815.  Scott, Guy M., v. There go the free-traders. Ibid. (1824), Redgauntlet, ch. xiv. As if a ship could go as straight to its port, as a horse to the stable, or a free-trader could sail the Solway as securely as a King’s cutter!

7   3.  An advocate of free-trade.

8 1849.  Cobden, Speeches, 34. If … there be free-traders who think that free-trade is only an experiment.

9 1878.  N. Amer. Rev., CXXVI. 266. The members of the combination were hopelessly divided. They were tariff men and free-traders, conservative Whigs and radical Democrats, Know-Nothings, and anti-Know-Nothings, strict constructionists and Federalists.

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