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1787 M. Cutler Jrnl. 14 July in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 271 The marketers seemed to be all in and every thing arranged.

1866 R. M. Copeland Country Life 39 A careful picker, barreller, and marketer, will sell his Apples for nearly double the price commanded by ordinary Apples.

1878 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 430 A superficial sameness in the appearance of meat which it is the business of a good marketer to see through.

1883 H. James En Province in Atlantic Monthly Nov. 631/2 I sat down with a hundred hungry marketers, fat, brown, greasy men.

1935 W. Fortescue Perfume from Provence 93 What more amusing than to watch the pompous Monsieur Jeannot slip on a piece of banana skin and skid into a heap of oranges, some of which scatter under the stalls and are swiftly prigged by alert urchins, while other marketers roller-skate on the remainder?

1932 Amer. Econ. Rev. 22 117 The economist's concept of elasticity of demand is useful to the marketer only as an aid in asking important questions.

1957 V. Packard Hidden Persuaders ii. 14 Second, some marketers concluded, you can't assume people will tell you the truth about their wants and dislikes even if they know them.

1973 Daily Tel. 15 Jan. 15/1 Texaco, the leading marketer of petrol for cars.., announced it was rationing supplies to customers.

1987 Holiday Which? Sept. 172/1 Some unscrupulous marketers still sell timeshare as an investment in property.

1998 USA Today (Electronic ed.) 15 June a1 ‘Soccer moms’ have become a much sought after demographic by both politicians and marketers.