There was extensive trade with distant foreign countries, and many foreign merchants settled in China, boosting a vibrant cosmopolitan culture.

Since the Hindu kingdom period, Javanese merchants settled at many places in the archipelago.

In general, trappers and merchants settled into a protected valley for two to three weeks.

City officials, merchants and the private hauler settled the dispute at a meeting, then picked up maggot-infested mountains of garbage.

English, Scottish, and Irish merchants settled in the city.

Later Tatar merchants and handicraft masters also settled there.

Chinese merchants settled, and the city's wealth attracted European interest of the sort that arrives heavily armed.

The merchants were all settling in, pitching tents, setting up cookfires.

A merchant does not settle their daily batch within the allotted time frame, usually past 48 hours from time of authorization.

And so far, merchants have settled about $813,000 in transactions made with the smart cards.