merchants

plural of merchant

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Recent Examples of merchants That said, the most attractive part of the deal would be Discover’s proprietary card network, which charges merchants a fee for processing credit card transactions. Trefis Team, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024 Amex’s customer cohort is attractive to merchants given their higher spending power. Trefis Team, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024 This means that Amex charges merchants higher discount rates than Visa and Mastercard (about 3%). Trefis Team, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024 Men of the Brotherhood of the Blackheads, an association of unmarried merchants and foreign traders, are said to have decorated the tree with artificial roses. Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024 Credit card companies position themselves in the middle, profiting from both interchange fees from merchants and interest payments from revolvers. Boaz Sobrado, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024 The ferry was traveling as part of a convoy of other vessels and the passengers were primarily merchants returning home for Christmas, said the mayor of Ingende, the last town on the river before the site of the accident. Jean-Yves Kamale and Wilson McMakin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024 The settlement was a result of a long-running antitrust case in which the two credit card network giants allegedly overcharged merchants by exacting excessive interchange fees, also called swipe fees. Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024 The latter option would be preferable for northern Arizona merchants and visitors, clearly, and services might be enhanced with state money. Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 20 Dec. 2024

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“Merchants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/merchants. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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