(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.
Illicit
Definition:
(a.) Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The typology developed in two previous surveys of illicit heroin products is applicable to many of the samples studied in this work, although significant changes have occurred in the chemical profile of illicit heroin products from certain geographical regions.
(2) Despite 50 years of criminalisation, illicit drugs are now the third most valuable industry in the world, after food and oil.
(3) An epidemiologic background appropriate to "serum" hepatitis, either transfusion (one bout) or illicit self-injection (46 bouts), was associated just as frequently with serologically non-B episodes as with identified type B disease.
(4) While there has been some unevenness in the extent to which successful risk reeducation has occurred, it is nonetheless dramatic compared with prior health educational efforts, and especially so given the exceptional sensitivity of the sexual and illicit drug using behaviors at issue.
(5) In view of recent reports demonstrating that illicit cocaine use may cause rhabdomyolysis, we reviewed the collective experience of a university-affiliated medical center to identify patients with cocaine-induced rhabdomyolysis.
(6) According to research and advocacy organisation Global Financial Integrity , nearly $1tn in illicit financial flows—the proceeds of crime, corruption, and tax evasion—flows illicitly out of developing countries every year.
(7) She rather fearlessly implied that "women who make lots of money from illicit sex" should forfeit the right to freedom of expression.
(8) By definition, illicit drug use is delinquent behavior.
(9) Newly admitted patients from two comprehensive drug abuse programs in the Baltimore area were queried concerning frequency of illicit methadone use and availability of illicit methadone for a 3-month period prior to their admission.
(10) If it agrees, the process of review could take until spring 2012, delaying implementation of the act even further, while content companies assert that illicit filesharing is costing UK businesses £400m annually in lost sales.
(11) Subjects (n = 108) who volunteered to participate in a study in which they expected to smoke marijuana were asked, as part of a screening procedure, to rate the harmfulness of a number of illicit drugs including marijuana.
(12) We have not turned the tide on the ease with which money can be shifted out of developing countries.” There are lots of ways to get money out of a country undetected but the easiest is through trade misinvoicing, which is the overpricing of imports and the underpricing of exports – and accounts for 77% of all illicit financial flows.
(13) Over 23 per cent of these samples were found positive for a drug other than methadone and 80 per cent of these positives were attributed to illicitly used drugs.
(14) A sample of 499 young adults in which illicit drug users were overrepresented were surveyed.
(15) Forty-four percent of the sample had comorbid substance use on admission, with marijuana and stimulants accounting for the majority of illicit drug use.
(16) Cocaine users tend to use other illicit drugs (particularly marijuana) and to be cigarette smokers and heavy drinkers much more frequently than nonusers.
(17) Research on their potential should not be curtailed because of fear that they will be subject to illicit abuse.
(18) The aggressive teenagers differed from the non-aggressive subjects firstly in their alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug consumption, and secondly with respect to other deviant behaviour, such as stealing, running away from home or violent victimization.
(19) In North America and Europe, certain legal highs were more widely used than traditional illicit drugs among younger age groups.
(20) The observation in the previous survey that unrelated samples of illicit heroin possess unique chemical profiles has been confirmed by the present results.