negotiant

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who conducts negotiations; a negotiator, an agent. archaic,historical
    — Ambassadors, negotiants, and generally all other ministers of mean fortune, in conversation with princes and superiors, must use great respect
  2. A trader or merchant; a businessman; a financier. obsolete
    — Such was the scarcity of bread, that a French gentleman told me, that, the day preceding the taking of the Bastille, he was invited to dine with a Negotiant, and, when he went, was informed that a servant had been out five hours in search of bread, and had at last been able to purchase only one loaf.

词形变化

negotiants plural

词源

From French négociant, or its source, Latin negōtiant-, probably via Italian negoziante (“merchant”).
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