commercial traveler

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noun

a traveling sales representative.

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Origin of commercial traveler

First recorded in 1800–10

There were no deaths on scheduled commercial aviation flights in 2014, in a system that operates 68,000 flights a day.
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501|Clive Irving|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
These days weather should never cause a commercial airliner to crash.
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501|Clive Irving|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
An additonal 30,000 made it to Europe by other routes including commercial flights and dangerous overland passages.
Ghost Ships of the Mediterranean|Barbie Latza Nadeau|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Are you seeing more commercial pressure from academic presses for historians to sexy it up a bit?
Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society|Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Both high fashion and the fast, commercial fashion of Target are supposed to be about aspiration.
One Vogue Cover Doesn’t Solve Fashion’s Big Race Problem|Danielle Belton|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
A considerable proportion of the industrial and commercial news is now written to an end.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
After all this the tobacco leaves may be laid aside for commercial exportation.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
The city and commercial suburb of Binondo wore their usual aspect, although trade was almost at a standstill.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
The money in the possession of "Commercial depositors" we shall call "till money," and the rest "pocket money."
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
Edmund Chishull, an English traveler, died; author of a book of travels in Turkey.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell