marketeer
Americannoun
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marketeers
plural
noun
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a supporter of the European Union and of Britain's membership of it
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a marketer
noun
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Origin of marketeer
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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
Senior marketeer Hilary Bradley told Campaign magazine last autumn that millennials in particular needed “memorable experiences” to help them “emotionally connect” to a product.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2019
To follow the money within the Islamic State, Mr. Cohen must track the group’s oil sales from black marketeer to black marketeer until the cash finally ends up traceable in a bank or financial institution.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2014
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
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
The army said the explosion occurred as soldiers handed out petrol seized from black marketeers in the Akkar region.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2021
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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