marketeer

American  

[mahr-ki-teer] / ˌmɑr kɪˈtɪər /

noun

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

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marketeer ¹ British  

/ ˌmɑːkɪˈtɪə /

noun

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

2. a marketer

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marketeer ² British  

/ ˌmɑːkəˈtɪə /

noun

1. a person employed in marketing

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Etymology

Origin of marketeer

First recorded in 1825–35; market + -eer

Example Sentences

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

But that new information doesn’t make him any more interesting; neither does the attempt to make his adult character, a thief and black marketeer, into a Humphrey Bogart-style cynical romantic, declining to choose sides until his hand is forced.

From New York Times

“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

Or he has shape-shifted into Orson Welles’s Harry Lime — the oily, amoral black marketeer at the center of the 1949 film noir “The Third Man.”

From Washington Post

Or as Mr. Littlewood — the frustrated Southampton fan and free marketeer — put it, “If you’re going to infringe on the freedom of a Brit, you better have a good reason to do so.”

From New York Times