marketeer

noun

mar·​ke·​teer ˌmär-kə-ˈtir How to pronounce marketeer (audio)
: a specialist in promoting or selling a product or service

Examples of marketeer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The Scottish marketeer defines purpose as having a point of view on issues important to the planet or society. Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023 Never so much as parked in front of the first big theater on the marketeers’ list, which was Jets vs. Bills Monday night in New York. Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023 Grace was hired by black marketeer White Widow (Vanessa Kirby) to obtain one of the key halves, but surviving a bonkers cars chase in Rome, almost dying in Venice and being embraced by the good guys leads the criminal to (somewhat reluctantly) put her faith and safety in Ethan’s hands. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023 This did not trouble free marketeers, who saw a high-tech industrial powerhouse, supposedly stripped of the irrational passions of mass politics and the nettlesome strictures of formal democratic procedure. Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 19 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for marketeer 

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Word History

First Known Use

1665, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of marketeer was in 1665

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“Marketeer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marketeer. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.

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