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road warrior

road warrior noun: a frequent business traveller.

Noun

road warrior (plural road warriors)

  1. (informal) A frequent business traveller.
    • I love the perks of international business travel as much as the next corporate road warrior. But the thought of taking in one more four-hour $400 meal in another international city has me searching for my nearest escape route.2007 October 16, Brice J. Bay, “Thanks, but I’ll Have the Bat on a Stick Instead”, in New York Times
  2. (slang) A salesperson who spends a lot of time traveling and outside the office.
  3. (slang) A person who carries a mobile device such as a laptop or PDA and uses wireless internet connections to work.
  4. A recreational cyclist who rides a racing bicycle and wears lycra.

Forms of road warrior

pluralroad warriors
alternative formroadwarrior

Questions about road warrior

What does road warrior mean?
Road warrior means a frequent business traveller.
What part of speech is road warrior?
Road warrior is a noun.
What is the plural of road warrior?
The plural of road warrior is road warriors.

Words near road warrior in the dictionary

  1. road trippers
  2. road trips
  3. road user
  4. road users
  5. road verge
  6. road warrior
  7. road warriors
  8. road work
  9. road works
  10. road-agent
  11. road-agents

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