as in vendor
one who sells things outdoors
street corner hawkers selling everything from fake designer purses to original works of art
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Recent Examples of hawker
There also did not appear to be many hawkers, who stand on the sidewalk with binders filled with photographs of different items that are later retrieved from a storefront, storage bin or other location upon request.
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
Don’t miss the katong laksa and ayam buah keluak (an iconic Peranakan dish, and a personal favorite of mine) prepared by Shangri-La chefs in collaboration with local cooks from Singapore’s hawker centers.
—Elizabeth See, AFAR Media, 2 Oct. 2025
The mall fills up with crappy weed shops and keychain hawkers; underfunding means the maintenance slips; eventually, maybe, there’s a bankruptcy, followed by a long twilight as an eyesore.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2025
Of those who stay, more than eighty per cent work in the informal sector—as domestic servants, street hawkers, porters, cleaners.
—Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Noun
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The consultant should be independent and free of financial ties to vendors or campus security providers to ensure unbiased findings.—
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To review or object to instances where our partners assert a legitimate interest in utilizing your data, please visit our vendors page.—
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Online sellers were siphoning customers and big name brands had begun to sell goods from their own stores.—
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One/Size is currently offering 13 products at Boots, including top seller On ‘Til Dawn Mattifying Waterproof Setting Spray and various primers formulated for a variety of skin tones and types.—
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Among election delusion peddlers, Oltmann has distinguished himself by calling for violence and defaming innocent people.—
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But Mexico is the primary − and virtually only − mass producer and exporter of fentanyl, with Chinese peddlers sending small amounts by mail, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and U.S. counternarcotics organizations.—
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What started as labor strikes and merchant protests over currency collapse and inflation has expanded into widespread street demonstrations and student protests.—
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Unrest at the Tehran bazaar is particularly unsettling for officials because the shuttering of shops at the ancient marketplace and protests from the merchant class were key elements that led to the overthrow of the monarchy in 1979.—
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Del Toro was such an amiable huckster.—
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Yet many mysteries remain, and plenty of myths and pseudoscientific claims surrounding the brain are still out there — many based on either misunderstandings of the empirical data or the misleading promises of hucksters.—
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“Hawker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawker. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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