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

That theme played out in Moscow, where Oleg and Ruslan’s efforts to clean up the grocery trade were stymied by the black marketeer Dmitri’s unwillingness to out the powerful people he serves.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2017