road warrior

noun

plural road warriors
: a person who travels frequently especially on business
Corporate road warriors want the best-performing laptop their IT department has on hand.Tom Brant
… millions of former road warriors may soon be heading to their next meeting in front of a screen.Nicolás Rivero
compare digital nomad

Examples of road warrior in a Sentence

a lightweight laptop computer that's perfect for road warriors
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Johnson also became a road warrior on the campaign trail, traveling to more than 240 cities across 40 states before Election Day and quickly building trust with GOP mega-donors. Emily Brooks, The Hill, 17 Dec. 2024 Apple likely considers the ability to automatically hotspot to an iPhone as sufficient, but this option is open to Windows users as well, and the 5G option remains one tha—while niche—is sought for by professions and the occasional road warrior. Ewan Spence, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024 The famished road warriors drove down the cold mountain highway and across the bridge into the town. J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 8 July 2024 With the exception of road warriors checking in with their kids at home, however, for most of us video telephony still isn’t a part of our daily lives. Thomas Wiegand, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2011 See all Example Sentences for road warrior 

Word History

First Known Use

1981, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of road warrior was in 1981

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“Road warrior.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/road%20warrior. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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