Talk:merchant

Is it mertshant or merkant? Please add the IPA. --94.76.52.12 11:04, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Done. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:18, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Extended senses

There are extended senses in modern business use that ought to be included here. I'm not sure if you'd add a separate adjective lemma or consider these attributive uses of the noun.

• As of an unregulated, open market service or commodity that normally is, or used to be, highly regulated: merchant transmission, merchant generation (in the electric and telecommunications utilities industries)
• As of a formerly vertically integrated manufacturing process that has been disaggregated: merchant silicon (in the electronics industry, referring both to the general outsourcing of integrated circuit manufacturing and the more specific replacement of proprietary devices with third-party commodity ICs)

207.180.169.36 22:10, 15 August 2021 (UTC)