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(finance, gambling, informal) One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur.
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One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrager
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(slang) The fees claimed by a medical practitioner for completing forms required for cremation of a body.
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a company that runs auctions.
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Fundraising activity where baked goods are sold, with profits going to charity or some other good cause.
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Alternative form of bake sale [Fundraising activity where baked goods are sold, with profits going to charity or some other good cause.]
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One who barters: one who trades goods for other goods without involving money.
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(archaic) A moneylender.
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A prearranged amount of takings beyond which the exhibitor of a film must start paying a higher film rental rate.
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To act as a broker; to transact business for another.
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(countable, gambling) An instance of winning a cash prize.
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(historical) A platform for exhibiting slaves for sale.
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(obsolete) traffic; bargaining; buying and selling
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(intransitive, obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
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(figuratively, by extension) A hub of goods traffic
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A sale of goods, typically unwanted household items, conducted in the driveway of a house, with the intention of selling to neighbours or passers-by.
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An auction where many of the same item are sold.
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(retail, manufacturing) A retail item that, through minor fault of manufacture, is sold to the public for a reduced rate.
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Alternative form of gate money [(business) The money earned from patrons who pay as the price of admission to an event, which is sometimes distributed as payment to the performers, athletes or other workers.]
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(slang) A business deal.
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(Britain, informal) An unemployment benefit cheque.
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A shop where people can bring and take goods without paying or getting paid.
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One who provides a prospector with a grubstake.
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(US, politics) Money contributed directly to a candidate rather than to a party or committee.
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Alternative spelling of hard sell [A sales technique of pressuring the potential buyer to agree to a purchase.]
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A form of danger money paid to people working at dangerously high locations.
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(historical) A fair or market where servants were engaged.
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Synonym of insider trading
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(euphemistic) A wealthy person; a person with control over sufficient resources to employ many other people
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Buying and selling stocks or goods for profit; mercenary trading.
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(Britain) A sale of used goods by individuals operating tables or stalls, usually held indoors and open to the public.
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(nautical, historical) An official commission from a government authorizing someone to seize the property or people of another nation in reprisal for a similar seizure by a ship from the other nation.
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Alternative spelling of loansharking
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(obsolete) commerce; traffic; trade
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(obsolete) An amercement, a punishment.
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Alternative form of moneymaker [Someone or something that earns or makes money; anything lucrative or profitable.]
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(finance, slang) a person who transfers stolen money or merchandise from one country to another, either in person, through a courier service, or electronically
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Someone or something that earns or makes money; anything lucrative or profitable.
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(obsolete, rare, transitive) To pawn (an article) for more than it is worth, in order to make a profit.
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(obsolete) Traffic at fairs; buying and selling.
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(obsolete) The trade or goods of a peddler.
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(Scottish and Northern English) An auction.
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An informal sale of donated items, usually to fund the programs of a church or charity.
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(Ireland) A fundraising event with raffles, cake sales, bingo etc; usually run by churches and schools.
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An investor who contributes seed funding.
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(idiomatic, obsolete) To make saucy (usually indelicate) repartees.
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One to whom something is sold; a purchaser.
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A lighthearted fundraising event where people volunteer to be bid upon in an auction, and act as servants to the winning bidders for a short period afterwards.
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(obsolete) A bargain in which the buyer of something is taken advantage of; a rip-off.
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(archaic) A public sale or auction.
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To sell (goods, to an army) as a sutler.
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(US, chiefly northeastern, dialect) A domestic sale of second-hand items; a garage sale or yard sale.
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Shopping for cheap items, as for example at a garage sale or flea market.
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A charity event dedicated to collecting Christmas presents for poor children.
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Full of trade; busy with commerce.
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(obsolete, rare) Frequented by traders.
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(by extension, informal) A person's bank account or assets.
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(US) A social program designed to wean those receiving government benefits back into employment.
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A public sale of second-hand unwanted items.
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The sale of products to end user at wholesale prices.
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To sell, or buy, things at a yard sale.
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