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Etymology
From free trade + -er (“supporter”).
Noun
free trader (plural free traders)
- A person in favor of free trade.
1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:All the street-sellers in question are what street estimation pronounces to be educated men; they can all, as far as I could ascertain, read and write, and some of them were “keenish politicians, both free-traders, and against free-trade when they was a-talking of the better days when they was young.”
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