noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an investment/merchant bank (= one that buys and sells stocks and shares etc )
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Goldman Sachs, the US investment bank
merchant bank
merchant navy
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John worked as a chef in the merchant navy.
merchant seaman
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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When required for use in war, large numbers of merchant vessels were impressed adhoc.
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Analysts also expect the company to shed its large stake in merchant bank Singer &038; Friedlander.
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Fancy designs are available from larger timber merchants , and give a lovely effect when lit from behind.
leading
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A hundred pounds and above covered knights and other leading gentry as well as merchants in overseas trade.
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The Khmers Rouges are the leading merchants of chaos.
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Senior politicians, key property figures and leading City merchant banks have all taken part in the talks.
local
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Take time to shop around; get to know your local wine merchant or investigate your local supermarket.
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Besides fattening the wallets of local merchants , the negotiators challenged each other to solve disputes on agriculture and textiles.
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Having an option doesn't have to affect how you physically sell wheat, or your relationship with local merchants .
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A suitable window frame came off a skip behind a local double glazing merchant , and was incorporated into the studwork.
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The piazza itself was filled with the stalls of local merchants and shopkeepers.
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One local builders' merchant has most of the materials we needed.
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Try your local architectural salvage merchants , who collect artefacts from old house and gardens.
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Try local builders' merchants and garden centres for stocks.
prosperous
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The absence of a prosperous merchant class meant that Sheffield had few fine houses or public buildings.
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For the prosperous merchants , substantial timber-framed houses were built around the gates of the Castle and Priory.
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Both his parents came from prosperous merchant and landowning families.
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Particularly the prosperous merchants and bankers, whose taxes paid for the police.
rich
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The palazzo is named after the rich merchant , Giova Battista Durini, for whom it was built.
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Doubtless a rich merchant escaping with as much treasure as he could lay frantic hands on.
wealthy
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The Church of St Havel with its Romanesque foundations was surrounded by the houses of wealthy merchants .
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At twenty-eight he was a wealthy merchant and a member of Congress.
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Morrice became a moderately wealthy merchant , spending generously on the education of young men for the dissenting ministry.
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Under other circumstances, he might have become a wealthy merchant .
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Here there are many quintas which were used by the wealthy Funchal merchants in the summer months.
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Born the son of a wealthy cloth merchant , Francis lived a lavish and irresponsible life.
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As a result only a thin stratum of wealthy native merchants developed.
wine
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Also patron of job-related stress and wine merchants .
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Consumers should go there only with guidance from a capable wine merchant or reviewer.
■ NOUN
bank
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So there he was, in a merchant bank , desperately trying to restore the family fortunes.
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Others are employed in merchant banks advising pension funds.
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Analysts also expect the company to shed its large stake in merchant bank Singer &038; Friedlander.
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Senior politicians, key property figures and leading City merchant banks have all taken part in the talks.
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The Founders had to agree everything to do with the paper, including the appointment of the sponsoring merchant bank .
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Takeover speculation lifted merchant bank Morgan Grenfell another 13p to 370p and Kleinwort Benson 8p to 374p.
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He is Patrick Bateman, a smirking, self-important young man working for a Wall Street merchant bank in the 1980s.
banker
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A former merchant banker , Le Roux knew little about motorbikes; he didn't even have a license to drive one.
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He had a bank balance that a senior merchant banker would not be ashamed of.
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The first merchant bankers approached were Samuel Montagu.
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Let me show you that all men aren't as cruel and immature as your retarded merchant banker .
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Mr Fitton, backed by merchant banker Henry Ansbacher, first came up with the offer six weeks ago.
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By analogy, the same principle could apply to other insiders, such as merchant bankers , who misuse confidential news.
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The plaintiffs obtained a report from the defendants, merchant bankers with whom E had an account, as to E's creditworthiness.
banking
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The company recently appointed Charterhouse as merchant banking advisers which will help it identify the options.
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A strong merchant banking contribution was more than offset by losses on investment management and stockbroking and some heavy loan provisions.
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The group's merchant banking adviser, Kleinwort Benson, is searching for suitable partners.
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Maybe merchant banking is the ultimate microcosm for life after all.
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Most of the fall came as a result of the release of provisions in the merchant banking and securities division.
class
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Saqr was a leading member of a well-known family of the traditional merchant class which owned the leading liberal newspaper, al-Qabas.
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The absence of a prosperous merchant class meant that Sheffield had few fine houses or public buildings.
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While war could create serious difficulties for the merchant class , other social groups looked at it in a different light.
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Along with the growth of towns went the rise of the merchant class .
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There was much variety of origin in the merchant class , then as now; and this is what we should expect.
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There was a strong merchant class whose aspirations were no less than his.
cloth
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Born the son of a wealthy cloth merchant , Francis lived a lavish and irresponsible life.
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An ugly church, monstrous and vulgar as the cloth merchants who had built it.
coal
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The 13 coal merchants and some of the 12 corn and seed merchants no doubt operated from the wharf.
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Other services provided by Co-operative societies include undertakers, coal merchants and opticians.
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The worst was a coal merchant .
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While doing this he gave a wonderful imitation of his coal merchant and his wife.
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Take an example: Mrs. Jones telephones her coal merchant asking him to deliver six bags of coal.
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If you use solid fuel many approved coal merchants provide budget schemes and supply small quantities.
fleet
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As Parker points out, the average age of the world merchant fleet is now 16 years.
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During the war I had felt the same about those they were attacking, the brave men of the Allied merchant fleets .
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At Bristol and Liverpool slavers did make up significant proportions of the merchant fleets .
navy
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The importance of the merchant navy in the formation of the maritime culture in North Shields was very great.
seaman
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Its chief exports had been sponges and merchant seamen , and those brought in nothing in wartime.
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Meale, who began working life as a merchant seaman and was later an Aycliffe councillor, is unamused.
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The 37-year-old merchant seaman killed Joyce after a night out ended in drunken violence.
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The position with regard to merchant seamen on Tyneside is rather complex.
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This abandonment of a Tyneside base by ship owning interests would not necessarily reduce recruitment of merchant seamen from the Tyne.
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The battle cost 120,000 lives, including 30,000 merchant seamen and 6,000 men of the Royal Navy.
seed
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The 13 coal merchants and some of the 12 corn and seed merchants no doubt operated from the wharf.
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Obvious sponsors might be seed merchants or weedkiller manufacturers.
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You can get these varieties from seed merchants such as Thompson and Morgan.
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They had been introduced by seed merchants putting them into their catalogues and invoices - and never objected to by farmers.
ship
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As he approached the coastline he passed over a merchant ship .
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Some 22,500 foreign merchant ships passed through in 1992, a 10 percent increase on the previous year.
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Scharnhorst, taking Rawalpindi for an unarmed merchant ship , signalled her to heave to.
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Chapter Eight On 14 July 1892, Maisie's son boarded a merchant ship and sailed away from his homeland.
shipping
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On August 1, the aircraft in which Ramsay was flying was shot down leading an attack against merchant shipping .
timber
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Branches of timber merchants , such as W H Newson, stock a range of hardwood mouldings for you to put up yourself.
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Fancy designs are available from larger timber merchants , and give a lovely effect when lit from behind.
vessel
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When required for use in war, large numbers of merchant vessels were impressed adhoc.
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Boarding and rummage of a merchant vessel presents no particular problem to us.
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Typically, the arming of a merchant vessel involved mounting eight six-inch guns on the ship.
wool
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It was built originally by one of the old wool merchants , who wanted to establish his family as landed gentry.
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They became weavers, or tailors, or wool merchants .
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Crosby Hall was built by Sir John Crosby, a wealthy grocer and wool merchant , and was completed in 1475.
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Being solid wool merchants at heart, they are not sure what to make of an engine that runs on paper.
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She was the daughter of Robert Keown, a London wool merchant .
■ VERB
sell
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Lain's Barn is the perfect setting for Midwinter merchants , selling everything from weapons to costume.
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She says many old-time merchants are selling out.
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What if the principal of the school decides that only one merchant can sell banana Popsicles?
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Builders' merchants then sell these fittings to builders alongside other merchandise that builders require.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Merchants say sales have not been affected by the road repairs.
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an international arms merchant
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Downtown merchants are stocking up for the Christmas shopping season.
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Local merchants have had trouble with vandals breaking windows.
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She was born in 1432, the daughter of a wealthy London merchant .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also patron of job-related stress and wine merchants.
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He appears among merchants as a merchant, among princes as a prince; even among insects as an insect.
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Its name comes from Philip Fenton, a merchant who owned it during its second century.
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Several of them were the sons of merchants, some prosperous, some small, two ruined.
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The merchant , the client, had willingly stooped into the dungeon of lust.
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These steps into new territory were too big and too risky to be undertaken by individual merchants.