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bagman
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bagman has 2 senses
- bagman(n = noun.person) commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, traveling salesman, travelling salesman - a salesman who travels to call on customers; Array is a kind of salesman, interpreter, representative, spokesperson, voice
- bagman(n = noun.person) Array - a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money; Array is a kind of racketeer
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CIDE DICTIONARY
bagman, n.
A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bagman, n. (pl. -men)
1 Brit. sl. a travelling salesman.
2 Austral. a tramp.
3 US sl. an agent who collects or distributes money for illicit purposes.
1 Brit. sl. a travelling salesman.
2 Austral. a tramp.
3 US sl. an agent who collects or distributes money for illicit purposes.
ROGET THESAURUS
bagman
Consignee
N consignee, trustee, nominee, committee, agent, delegate, commissary, commissioner, emissary, envoy, commissionaire, messenger, diplomatist, diplomat, diplomate, corps diplomatique, embassy, ambassador, embassador, representative, resident, consul, legate, nuncio, internuncio, charge d'affaires, attache, vicegerent, plenipotentiary, functionary, placeman, curator, treasurer, factor, bailiff, clerk, secretary, attorney, advocate, solicitor, proctor, broker, underwriter, commission agent, auctioneer, one's man of business, factotum, caretaker, dalal, dubash, garnishee, gomashta, negotiator, go-between, middleman, under agent, employe, servant, referee, arbitrator, traveler, bagman, commis-voyageur, touter, commercial traveler, drummer, traveling man, newspaper correspondent, own correspondent, special correspondent.Petitioner
N petitioner, solicitor, applicant, suppliant, supplicant, suitor, candidate, claimant, postulant, aspirant, competitor, bidder, place hunter, pot hunter, prizer, seeker, beggar, mendicant, moocher, panhandler, freeloader, sponger, mumper, sturdy beggar, cadger, hotel runner, runner, steerer, tout, touter, pauper, homeless person, hobo, bum, tramp, bindle stiff, bo, knight of the road (poverty), hippie, flower child, hard core unemployed, welfare client, welfare case, canvasser, bagman, salesman.
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