huckster has definitions from the fields of work,business
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[ noun ] (work,business) a seller of shoddy goods

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

When the hay wagon had gone , and an interval passed , a huckster 's cart might turn the corner .

The horse walked , the reins were slack , the huckster rode with bowed shoulders , his forearms across his knees .

Related terms

seller costermonger haggle

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[ verb ] (business) sell or offer for sale from place to place

Used in print

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

He milks the latest scientific advances , translating them into his own special Buck_Rogers vocabulary to huckster his fake machines as a cure-all for everything from hay_fever to sexual impotence and cancer .

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[ verb ] (business) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)

Examples

"Let's not haggle over a few dollars"

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[ noun ] (work) a person who writes radio or tv advertisements

Related terms

advertiser

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