merchant house
Commercial trading establishment
A merchant house is a business firm engaged in trade, especially international commerce.
Historically, merchant houses dominated global trade routes, buying and selling commodities, financing shipments, and maintaining networks of agents in distant ports: The Dutch merchant houses controlled much of the spice trade.
The term evokes an era when family-run trading companies wielded enormous economic power.
- tradingExchanging for value
- trading postRemote commerce station
- warehouseBulk goods storage building
- guildProfessional mutual-aid society
- goodsThings for sale
ledger · bill of lading · shipment · broker · factor · counting · letters of credit · spices · spice trade · silk · imports · exports · shipping routes · dynasty · family · fortune · old money · enterprise
- commercial buildingsshop, store, mall, shopping mall, strip mall
- Old Towncobblestone streets, cobblestone street, cobblestones, town square, city gate
- medieval buildingsmanor, keep, great hall, gatehouse, chateau
- historic architectureVersailles, Blenheim Palace, Hampton Court, Monticello, Mount Vernon
- German architecturehalf-timbering, timber framing, Neuschwanstein Castle, Cologne Cathedral, Bauhaus
- Islamic architecturemosques, domes, arches, minarets, madrasas
merchant houseretail shop
Consumer goods establishment
retail store · corner store · street vendor · peddler · mom-and-pop store
merchant housecharity
Voluntary aid for others
nonprofit organization · philanthropic foundation · charitable foundation · almshouse · public institution
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