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trafficker|ˈtræfɪkə(r)|
[f. traffic v. + -er1.]
1. One who is engaged in traffic or trade; a trader, merchant, dealer.
1580Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 327 Divers..honest trafficquers of this cuntrie. 1615tr. De Monfart's Surv. E. Indies 22 They are..great Traffickers. a1727Newton Observ. Coin (1730) 10 Traffickers in money will get above 6 per Cent by sending Gold to Spain. 1833H. Martineau Charmed Sea v, The traffickers were exchanging their goods laboriously. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola iii, An itinerant trafficker in broken glass and rags.
b. With opprobrious force; cf. traffic n. 2 d.
a1785Glover Athenaid xiii. Poems (1810) 124/2 Let these to some fell traficker in slaves Be sold. 1839James Louis XIV, IV. 50 These traffickers in poison seem to have been seized with a sort of madness. 1869Echo 28 Aug., Practices familiar to many generations of hardened traffickers in votes.
2. One who carries on an underhand or improper traffic (esp. between other parties); a go-between, a negotiator; an intriguer; a schemer.
1570in Calr. Scott. Pap. (1903) III. 384 Thome Bischop wes ye first trafficquar betuix ye bischop of Ros and ye said Johnne. 1687Royal Proclam. in Lond. Gaz. No. 2221/4 For being Papists, Jesuits, or Traffickers, for hearing, or saying of Mass. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 561 Lest any should say that he too, like the mass of traffickers around him, did but seek his own gain. 1893Stevenson Catriona ix. 96 The whole clan of old Jacobite spies and traffickers. |