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roadwarrior

roadwarrior is the alternative spelling of road warrior.

Meaning of road warrior

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 roadwarrior

pluralroadwarriors

Origin of roadwarrior

From road + warrior.

Questions about roadwarrior

What is roadwarrior the alternative spelling of?
Roadwarrior is the alternative spelling of road warrior.

Words near roadwarrior in the dictionary

  1. roadtested
  2. roadtesting
  3. roadtests
  4. roadtrip
  5. roadtrips
  6. roadwarrior
  7. roadwarriors
  8. Roadwater
  9. roadway
  10. roadways
  11. roadweed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roadwarrior (page history and authors); road warrior (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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