"merchant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I want a head count on Lebanese merchants in the city.
- Carlos Slim, 56, is the son of a Lebanese merchant who came here in 1902 and became fairly wealthy.
- Also competing with the Creoles were Lebanese merchants, who began streaming in toward the end of the nineteenth century.
- However, in the mid-1980s, Houphouët-Boigny began issuing warnings to Lebanese merchants alleged to be guilty of customs fraud and monopolistic practices.
- There is little middle class to speak of, except perhaps the Lebanese merchants who still dominate what remains of the city's commercial life, though most of them have fled.
- The presence of Lebanese and Chinese merchants (who bought abandoned French businesses) contributed to an at times cohesive, at times stratified society.
- "The trouble started early one Monday morning, when they told me there were soldiers shooting all around town and that I shouldn't go out," said the 70-year-old Lebanese merchant.
- Among other historically persecuted "middlemen minorities" were Lebanese and Chinese immigrant merchants.
- He married the daughter of a Lebanese merchant and qualified as a lawyer before returning to Beirut in 1933.
- "Black people take merchandise and go sell it in their neighborhoods to earn a living," Mr. Yasim, the Lebanese merchant, said.
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