Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who exposes provisions, etc., for sale in a market.
  • noun One who buys in a market; one who does marketing; one who makes purchases of supplies in a market.

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Examples

  • - Get melon and give it to the marketman at the beginning of the level

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • He then telephoned the nearest market and ordered everything he could think of from beefsteak to fruit, and to this added everything the marketman could think of.

    The Seventh Noon Frederick Orin Bartlett

  • The Saxon word chapman means a chapman, marketman, merchant, monger or cheapner.

    A History of Caroline County, Virginia 1924

  • “What do you think of these apples, Mr. Beecher?” one marketman would stop to ask.

    A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After Bok, Edward 1921

  • If you would go to the political world, follow the great road, —follow that marketman, keep his dust in your eyes, and it will lead you straight to it; for it, too, has its place merely, and does not occupy all space.

    Walking 1914

  • Some diamond-back terrapin are supplied for the Baltimore market from North Carolina, but these, my marketman assured me, are inferior to those of Chesapeake Bay.

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • In his smaller sizes, according to my marketman, he is worth about a dollar an inch, while when grown to fair proportions he costs as much as a railroad ticket from Baltimore to Chicago.

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • Of a marketman I obtained the following lore concerning the tortoise of the terrapin species:

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • "What do you think of these apples, Mr. Beecher?" one marketman would stop to ask.

    A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After Edward William Bok 1896

  • At one of its stalls may still be found an ancient marketman, whose name, Anthony

    Prisoners of Poverty Abroad Helen Campbell 1878

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