marketeer
(mɑːkɪˈtɪə(r))
[See -eer1.]
1. One who sells in a market; a market-dealer.
| 1832 Boston Herald 6 Mar. 4 Placing the permanent taxed shopkeepers more on a level with the weekly untaxed marketeers. 1847 Robb Squatter Life 116 The sucker marketeer drew off a few paces, to be ready to run. 1859 Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 10 A genuine Billingsgate marketeer. |
2. Racing slang. (See quot.)
| 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict., Marketeer, a betting man who devotes himself, by means of special information, to the study of favourites, and the diseases incident to that condition of equine life. The Marketeer is the principal agent in all milking and knocking-out arrangements. |
3. A supporter of Britain's entry into the Common Market (cf. common a. 21).
| 1962 Listener 15 Nov. 799/2 The Marketeers within the Labour Party. 1969 Guardian 29 Aug. 16/8 The TUC General Council is trying to avoid an embarrassing public debate on the Common Market... Pro- and anti-Marketeers united in angry condemnation of Mr. Jenkins's attempts to force the issue on to the agenda. 1970 Times 4 May 8/2 Mr. Douglas Jay..leads his all-party group of anti-Marketeers, under the banner of the new Common Market Safeguards Campaign. 1971 New Scientist 27 May 522/1 The Paris summit has made the marketeers a little bolder. 1975 Times 25 Feb. 14/2 A keynote of the marketeers' case is..that Britain is in Europe and that the decision is..whether to come out. |
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Add: 4. A specialist in marketing.
| 1983 InfoWorld 3 Oct. 27/1 Aggressive marketeers are chasing this new target market. 1985 Times 8 Mar. 22/2 An historian rather than a technical man by training, he started as a marketeer. 1987 Sunday Times 18 Oct. 75/2 Saunders was seen as one of the finest marketeers in British industry. 1988 Financial Times 22 Sept. 28/5 Analysis of the over-55s—a group of consumers currently much observed by marketeers—shows that they can be segmented into four distinct sub-groups. |