commercial traveler
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of commercial traveler
First recorded in 1800–10
Example Sentences
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Richard Dix, as a brawny, broken-nosed, commercial traveler, twines love and business, achieving girl and commission.
From Time Magazine Archive
Former Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek called him "the best commercial traveler I've ever met�and in Brazil we meet them all."
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
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
Why is a commercial traveler whose "walk in life" is selling eggs, certain to be successful?
From The Handbook of Conundrums by Ordway, Edith B.
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