commercial traveler

noun

1. a traveling sales representative.

Word History and Origins

Origin of commercial traveler¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

Twenty paces from Benvenew the road forked, and the commercial traveler had not the slightest idea which path to take.

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I am also intimate with a French commercial traveler, incredibly ignorant, but extremely good-natured and gentlemanly.

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Mr. Towne was a commercial traveler, always "on the road," as he would say, for a large furniture establishment in New York.

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She's decided to marry the commercial traveler, I'm almost sure, although her people say he's not "steady."

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A "commercial traveler" is a man who writes to his girl on different hotel paper every day.

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