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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


Example Sentences

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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

“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

Born in 1945 to a Jewish family outside of Paris, Modiano's father was a black marketeer who profited from the Nazi occupation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2014

For Violette Leduc, a black marketeer turned celebrated writer, life is a series of crushing disappointments, from the mother who never took her hand to the friends who never stay.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 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

Or perhaps some talented marketeers are driving a shift in narrative.

From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2023

But analyst Ian Fogg, from the company OpenSignal, said the 5G experience had been oversold by over-enthusiastic marketeers.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2022

Military and security sources said that the army had seized a fuel storage tank hidden by black marketeers and was handing out gasoline to residents when the explosion occured.

From Reuters ● Aug. 15, 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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