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retail merchant

 
 
noun [C] US COMMERCE

Definition

a business that sells directly to the public from a store: These layoffs and plant closings have impacted Brownsville retail merchants and other businesses as well.
(Definition of retail merchant noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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