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Meanings of venturer in English

Catalan
aventurer

A person who enjoys taking risks.

aventurer

A merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas)

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Examples for "merchant-venturer"
Examples for "merchant-venturer"
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The following year, 1603, just after the death of Queen Elizabeth, some merchant-venturers of Bristol sent out two vessels under Martin Pring.
Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions
Usage of venturer in English
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Instantly the venturer was up and at the flap, peering outside.
The Maid of the Whispering Hills
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With a daring heart the venturer from Grand Portage went in across the sill.
The Maid of the Whispering Hills
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Their appearance was sufficiently hideous to alarm the most callous venturer into the Antarctic.
The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash; or, Facing Death in the Antarctic
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Also there was that venturer of the great beauty and the silken curls who had spoken so prettily.
The Maid of the Whispering Hills
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Eliza, of course, recognized the Iron Duke, but the gas-light and the disguise prevented the latter from knowing his fellow venturer.
Kathleen
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He had gone in a tubby wooden craft, the winds his carrier, across oceans that were pathless, except to the venturer.
The Romance of a Pro-Consul / Being the Personal Life and Memoir...
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And more,-deliveralso that venturer who, but for my thoughtless words of the red flower, would be now safe on the Saskatchewan.
The Maid of the Whispering Hills
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He's either the venturer or the sole investor or both, but he's hardly the type to dirty his hands unloading cargo on the beach.
Destined to last
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Only a few times have I met a true venturer-onewho does not ask a schedule and map from Fate when he begins a journey.
Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
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Venturer Exports and the men profiting from it had to be stopped.
Desperate cargo
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We are akin, Ma'amselle,-bothventurers, and my blood leaps to your spirit!
The Maid of the Whispering Hills
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Canfield understood how they might view the attacks on Venturer Exports.
Desperate cargo
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All that is going to help build up the files on Venturer Exports.
Desperate cargo
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It's supposed to have details on everyone who works for Venturer.
Desperate cargo
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Venturer Exports would be reduced to ashes and scattered beyond repair.
Desperate cargo
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Venturer Exports existed because of the protective umbrella spread over it.
Desperate cargo
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Translations for venturer
Catalan
aventurer
Venturer through the time