marchand, -e, adj., merchantable, marketable, saleable, vendible; mercantile, trading; navigable (of rivers). Prix —; trade price, wholesale price. Place —e; trading-place. Vaisseau —; merchantman, merchant-ship. Capitaine —; merchant-captain. Marine —e; merchant-service; mercantile navy.
marchandage, n.m., task-work, piece-work; bargaining.
*marchandailler, v.n., to haggle.
marchande, n.f., tradeswoman. — lingère; linen draper. — d’huîtres; oyster-woman. — de modes; milliner.
marchander, v.a., to ask the price of, to cheapen, to bargain for, to haggle for, to chaffer for; to spare; to hesitate to expose; to grudge, to trouble. Ne pas — quelqu’un; not to spare any one, not to mince matters with any one. Il ne marchande pas sa vie; he does not hesitate to expose his life.
se marchander, v.r., to be cheapened, to spare each other.
marchander, v.n., to haggle, to chaffer, to stand haggling, to bargain; to be irresolute, to hesitate.
marchandeur, n.m., task-master, middleman; haggler, bargainer.
marchandise, n.f., merchandise, goods, ware, commodity. Faire valoir sa —; to cry up one’s goods, to set one’s self off. — qui plaît est à demi-vendue; please the eye and pick the purse.
marche, n.f., walk; walking; gait, march; progress, journey, course, advance; procession; step, stair; move (at chess, drafts); conduct, arrangement; way of proceeding; military frontier, border; marches, borders, between England and Wales, also between England and Scotland. Ce vaisseau a une — avantageuse; that vessel is a fast sailer. Vaisseau construit pour la —; ship built to sail very fast or for speed; clipper. Mettre en —; to set going. Faire une fausse —; to play a false move. Gagner une — sur; to steal a march upon. — d’un poème; progress of a poem. — d’escalier; step of a staircase. — d’un tour; treadle of a lathe. — de deux heures; two hours’ walk or journey. La — de cet homme a été louche dans l’affaire; the conduct of that man in the matter has been suspicious. — militaire, — triomphale; military, triumphal, march. L’armée est en —; the army is on the march. Fermer la —; to close the procession. Ouvrir la —; to lead the way.