(n.) A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.
Example Sentences:
(1) By discussing the name of the slush fund on an application for its incorporation, it says, “Julia Gillard’s conduct in this respect must be regarded as a lapse of professional judgment, but nothing more sinister.” The report does recommend Victorian and West Australian authorities consider fraud charges against Wilson and his union “bagman”, Ralph Blewitt.
(2) So hardly a journalist by most definitions; more of a bagman on his own account.
Bagmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Bagman
Example Sentences:
(1) In the courtroom below it was elbow-waggling room only as the usual throng of briefs and their bagmen were swamped by a crush of interested parties, among them a smattering of furrowed-looking men in replica shirts who would keep a determined vigil throughout the day.
(2) One of Zardari and his late wife's trusted bagmen in Washington, Husain Haqqani, has been forced to resign.
(3) True, many of those diverting funds offshore were located in far-away kleptocracies: Russian oligarchs, African despots, and bagmen for Syria’s murderer-president Bashar al-Assad.