A city merchant, grown rich on trade with nearby Imperial worlds.
Taxes are another growing problem for some city merchants.
The phrase therefore was seen to apply across classes to rural landowners as well as city merchants.
Most of the city merchants opposed the new tracts.
"They are not city merchants, lord, but men who claim friendship."
His mother was the daughter of a rich city merchant named West.
Some city merchants are literally penniless, losing money by rounding off customers' purchases.
The city merchants celebrated the continued success of mining and the transfer of funds to their businesses.
And they were gathering a respectable amount of information about city merchants, including Rokuro.
He was too busy keeping the peace between the two factions of the rebels, the farmers and the city merchants.