marketeer

noun

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web During her brief 49 days in office, Truss attempted to reverse this malaise with a menu of hard-line free-marketeer tax cuts that spooked markets and spelled her downfall. Alexander Smith, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2022 Like Truss, Kwarteng is a free-marketeer in the mold of 1980s Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Jill Lawless, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022 The term celebrity service was coined by author, speaker and marketeer, Geoff Ramm. Joanna Swash, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021 If a company wants to take a loss on a product in hopes of gaining market share, the free-marketeer’s thinking goes, that’s its prerogative. Washington Post, 6 July 2021 To a total free-marketeer, a B Corp is shareholder money wasted on do-gooding. Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 3 July 2021 The ultimate marketeer, Woolson offered premiums tucked in with his products. Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2021 Bolsonaro’s minister for the economy, Paulo Guedes, co-founded the Instituto Millenium and is an ardent free-marketeer. Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2021 French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, noting tensions in world markets, suggested at a news conference that traffickers and black marketeers are now in the mask business, given the competition in procuring the vital necessity for health workers. Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 24 Apr. 2020 See More

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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 20 Dec. 2022.

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