commercial traveler
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of commercial traveler
First recorded in 1800–10
Example Sentences
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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
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
Instead, bring Dumas; in whose art I have found a soul, if only the soul of a commercial traveler.
From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson
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