scrap merchant

See also: scrapmerchant

English

Noun

scrap merchant (plural scrap merchants)

Synonym of scrap dealer.
- 2020 December 2, Richard Clinnick, “Fleet News: Class 56s revived, rebuilt and rebooted as GBRf Class 69s”, in Rail, page 29:
  Donor locomotives are chosen on account of what works. A locomotive may have been stored for many years, or in the case of 56128 even been sold to a scrap merchant.

Synonyms

scrappie

References

“scrap merchant”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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