merchant-venturer

1. 1.

   a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas)

   Synonymsventurer

   Broadermerchant

Questions about merchant-venturer

What does merchant-venturer mean?

merchant-venturer means "a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas)".

How many syllables are in merchant-venturer?

merchant-venturer has 5 syllables and divides as mer-chant--ven-tu-rer under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for merchant-venturer?

Close synonyms include venturer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.