touter
touter is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. [Colloq.] The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the police. Dickens.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adulator
- advocate
- agent
- ambassador
- applicant
- arbitrator
- aspirant
- attache
- attorney
- auctioneer
- bagman
- bailiff
- beggar
- bidder
- broker
- bum
- business
- cadger
- candidate
- canvasser
- case
- charge
- child
- claimant
- claqueur
- clawback
- clerk
- client
- commercial
- commissary
- commission
- commissionaire
- commissioner
- committee
- competitor
- consignee
- consul
- core
- corps
- correspondent
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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