commercial traveler
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of commercial traveler
First recorded in 1800–10
Example Sentences
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A tourist or commercial traveler voluntarily submits himself to the law of a country he visits.
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
Richard Dix, as a brawny, broken-nosed, commercial traveler, twines love and business, achieving girl and commission.
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
And all because he had, years before, mistaken him for a commercial traveler and called him "Old Cocky-wax!"
From The Varmint by Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo
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