how to pronounce merchant

/ˈmɝtʃənt/

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merchant is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of merchant in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… for a local merchant before long he was …”

meaning of merchant

Merchant is a person who trades in goods.

merchant frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word merchant occurs in english on average 6.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics merchant can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that merchant can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) transport and travel;