conventioneer

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English

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Etymology

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From convention +‎ -eer.

Noun

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conventioneer (plural conventioneers)

  1. A person attending a convention.
    • 1990, Michael Garvey, Finding Fault, page 88:
      [] the zitfaced prom king, the booze-whacked conventioneer or the randy trucker plying some local bimbo with sloe gin fizzes.
    • 2009 January 21, Francis X. Clines, “In Washington on Inauguration Day”, in The New York Times[1]:
      [] the throngs included tribes of American Indians celebrating [] like victorious conventioneers in their burnished regalia at a hotel party Monday night.

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