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 • Jul. 11, 2023

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 • Jul. 12, 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

Her father was a con man, black marketeer and philanderer who deserted the family temporarily when Jenny was 6 — leading her mother to suffer a mental breakdown — and permanently when she was 11.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2016