commercial traveler
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of commercial traveler
First recorded in 1800–10
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I solemnly swear that I had no previous knowledge that a permit was necessary as it was the first time I had been further east than Texas as a commercial traveler.
From Time Magazine Archive
Blotner has salvaged a number of fine stories from back-issue oblivion and, in the process, presented an intriguing portrait of the artist as a commercial traveler.
From Time Magazine Archive
A short time ago a Chinese soldier by the name of Li entered the legation quarter at Peking and walloped one A. K. Campbell, British commercial traveler.
From Time Magazine Archive
A tourist or commercial traveler voluntarily submits himself to the law of a country he visits.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have heard an American commercial traveler laughingly tell how on the trip from Cape Haitien to Port-au-Prince the automobile he was in killed a donkey and two pigs.
From Self-Determining Haiti Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. by James Weldon Johnson
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