scout

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person employed to search out promising mineral properties and to check on the activities of competitors.

Quotations

1924

Already I've been spotted as a scout for a gold-dredging outfit with designs on the Cheena.

1952

. . . I asked him to drop a word here and there among the oil-company scouts.

1963

Scouts of competing oil companies would have an extremely hard time spying on the project.