Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person employed to sell goods on commission, either in his own name or in the name of his principal, and intrusted with the possession, management, control, and disposal of the goods sold: differing from a broker, who is an agent employed to make bargains and contracts between other persons in matters of trade.
- noun One who buys or sells groceries, or garden or dairy produce, etc., on commission.
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Examples
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The groom was a former neighbor named William Anderson Moffett, eleven years her senior and a partner in the commission-merchant firm of Moffett, Stillwell and Company.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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The groom was a former neighbor named William Anderson Moffett, eleven years her senior and a partner in the commission-merchant firm of Moffett, Stillwell and Company.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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"I should conjecture that he was a kind of guide, philosopher, and friend, with a little of the agent and commission-merchant," replied
The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille
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Each hogshead is branded with the name of the owner, and thus shipped to his commission-merchant, when the hogshead is 'broken' by tearing off a stave, thus exposing the strata of the bulk to view.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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You know your uncle David was a commission-merchant, and very often had packages left with him for safe-keeping.
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Little by little the government will become manufacturer, commission-merchant, and retail dealer.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
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The commission-merchant is the type, the highest expression, of monopoly, the embodiment of commerce, that is, of civilization.
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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Every function depends upon his, participates in it, or is assimilated to it: for, as from the standpoint of the distribution of wealth the relations of men with each other are all reducible to exchanges, -- that is, to transfers of values, -- it may be said that civilization is personified in the commission-merchant.
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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The commission-merchant -- that is, the merchant -- that is, the man -- is a gambler, a slanderer, a charlatan, a mercenary, a thief, a forger ....
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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Jean-Jules Popinot, in order to aid Honorine, the Count's wife, sent her a pretended commission-merchant, probably Felix Gaudissart, offering a more than generous price for the flowers she made.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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