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marketeer

American  
[mahr-ki-teer] / ˌmɑr kɪˈtɪər /

noun

  • marketeers
    plural
  1. a person who sells goods or services in or to a market.


marketeer 1 British  
/ ˌmɑːkɪˈtɪə /

noun

  1. a supporter of the European Union and of Britain's membership of it

  2. a marketer

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

marketeer 2 British  
/ ˌmɑːkəˈtɪə /

noun

  1. a person employed in marketing

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of marketeer

First recorded in 1825–35; market + -eer


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Zhu became premier in 1998 and swiftly lived up to his reputation as a hard-hitting free marketeer.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

But he had plenty of good to say about the villainous, “picture-making performance” of late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who played the extremely dangerous black marketeer Owen Davian.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

“You are not as government interfering in the marketplace. You are counteracting the anti-competitive effects of a cartel. Even if you are a free marketeer, it is fair game to knock down anti-competitive, cartel-driven practices.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2022

Already Turkey has the makings of a bomb program: uranium deposits and research reactors — and mysterious ties to the nuclear world’s most famous black marketeer, Abdul Qadeer Khan of Pakistan.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2019

That theme played out in Moscow, where Oleg and Ruslan’s efforts to clean up the grocery trade were stymied by the black marketeer Dmitri’s unwillingness to out the powerful people he serves.

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2017

The government says authorities have carried out raids and taken action against hoarders and black marketeers who are exploiting shortages to price gouge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

The website opens up with a dark blue page - a colour that brand marketeers like to associate with trust and quality, not to mention royalty.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024

Donaghy’s understanding of capitalism — one that the unbound free marketeers of the Premier League would doubtless recognize — would identify that as an imperfect synergy.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

Universal Waste’s marketeers claim the company will bring wealth and prosperity to Claremont, Kansas, by turning the local landfill into its opposite, a mine.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2022

That’ll be a blow to the black marketeers and others like them, but even more to people in hiding and anyone else with money that can’t be accounted for.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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