travel agent

noun

: a person engaged in selling and arranging transportation, accommodations, tours, or trips for travelers

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This time, though, the 27-year-old Dallas resident organized it largely on his own – with the help of a travel agent – as a surprise to celebrate her graduation from pharmacy school. Nathan Diller, USA Today, 13 May 2025 By Bay City News A Fairfield travel agent has been sentenced to nine years behind bars for defrauding members of the South Asian community in Northern California, state prosecutors said Friday. Bay City News Service, Mercury News, 10 May 2025 Rebecca Smiley quit her job as a college admissions counselor to become a travel agent. Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025 The inhabitants include a grocer, a travel agent, a general practitioner, a mayor. James Wood, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for travel agent

Word History

First Known Use

1885, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of travel agent was in 1885

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“Travel agent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/travel%20agent. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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