business agent
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of business agent
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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Zucker said league rules prevented her from facilitating directly, but Wachtell Lipton found that Zucker simply sidestepped that rule by passing along the Clippers’ preferred terms for a Leonard endorsement through a business agent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
She later became a business agent and organizer for the Hollywood Teamsters local.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023
Over the next eight years, he was a business agent, contract director and publications editor for the Service Employees International Union.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2023
“I’m ecstatic,” said Darlene Carpenter, the business agent for the union’s Local 358.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2021
He is the business agent of the union and runs everything, although few persons know it.
From Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success against Odds by Stella M. Francis
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