commercial traveler
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of commercial traveler
First recorded in 1800–10
Example Sentences
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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
Richard Dix, as a brawny, broken-nosed, commercial traveler, twines love and business, achieving girl and commission.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cheever's father, a model for Leander in the Wapshot books, was a shoe salesman�"a commercial traveler with a flower in his buttonhole," says Cheever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eighty thousand pounds�and yet by the merest chance had Martin Barnes, commercial traveler, strolled out of his shabby hotel, and past the strange old house.
From Time Magazine Archive
No commercial traveler at a familiar hotel could have been more jauntily and blithely at home.
From Brand Blotters by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)
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