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salesman

salesman

298 1.0
A person who sells things in shops or to customers
  • noun
  • /ˈseɪlzˌmæn/
: vendedor
  • As a dedicated salesman, he travels across the country to meet clients and showcase new products.
  • a traveling salesman
  • a car salesman
  • an insurance salesman

Rhett is a car salesman and Link is the car.

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Examples

  • You girls are looking at the newest salesman of the 12th-largest life insurance company in America.

  • At 50, she works as an interior designer, while her husband is a salesman for a pharmaceutical company.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Hey, we got a new salesman, Buddy Hall over here.

  • To my best salesman and his beautiful wife.

  • Is this guy a salesman?

  • So my dad is a salesman for Sony Broadcast.

  • And the salesman also convinced me to buy these socks.

  • If you're an insurance salesman, you have to get a little creative in how you close a deal.

  • The proposed agent turned out to be a jewelry salesman with glowing letters of recommendation from satisfied customers.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Jahan lives a fast-paced life most of the year as a salesman of business supplies.

    Academic text (1990)

Synonyms

vendor
vssalesman
190 2.0

A person or company that sells things, for example at a market

is the general seller role that includes shop or visit sales too
seller
vssalesman
184 1.0

A person or company that offers goods for money

is the specific worker role rather than any person or business selling
clerk
vssalesman
  • US
136 1.1

A person who helps customers and handles sales at a shop

is the selling role rather than mainly helping or handling transactions
salesperson
vssalesman
42 2.2

A person who sells things for a store or company

is the male specific term rather than a gender neutral one
sales rep
vssalesman
  • Informal
21 3.5

A person who sells a company's products or services to customers

is the general selling role often in stores or visiting customers
traveling salesman
vssalesman
  • US
12 4.4

A person who travels to different places to meet customers and sell goods or services

is the general selling job that also includes store work rather than only travel
peddler
vssalesman
11 5.7

A person who travels to sell small goods in streets or markets

is the broader sales role not only selling in streets or markets
7 2.7

A person who contacts customers to sell a company's products and services

is the general person selling not focused on representing a company
pitchman
vssalesman
  • US
5 6.8

A man who sells products by talking and showing them to people, often at fairs or on TV

is the standard selling job working in stores or visiting customers
hawker
vssalesman
  • UK
5 7.4

A person who sells goods in the street or at markets

is the more general sales job that also includes in store work
salesclerk
vssalesman
  • US
2 2.4

A person who works in a store and helps customers buy things

is the broader job that can include visiting customers as well as store work
book agent
vssalesman
2 3.8

A person who sells books by visiting homes or towns

is the general seller role not limited to books or that market
shop clerk
vssalesman
1 1.9

A person who helps customers buy things in a store

is not limited to serving in a shop and may include visiting customers
bagman
vssalesman
  • Archaic
1 8.6

A traveling seller who visits shops with samples to sell

is the more general seller role not tied to carrying samples
shopman
vssalesman
  • Archaic
1 4.2

A man who works in a shop and helps customers

is broader as it also covers selling outside shops and visiting customers
tradesperson
vssalesman
  • UK
1 3.5

A person who buys and sells goods in a shop or market

is focused only on selling rather than also buying or trading

Compounds

12 4.4

A person who travels to different places to meet customers and sell goods or services

snake oil salesman
  • Offensive
5 8.0

A person who tricks people by offering fake medicines or useless products

jumped-up salesman
  • Offensive
8.4

A salesperson who acts as if they are more important after a promotion

Surface Forms

salesman singular
salesmen plural

Morphology

salesman = sales + man (transparent) = sales + man

A straightforward compound of 'sales' (the activity of selling) + 'man' meaning a man who sells; easily understood by learners.

Etymology

Salesman is simply sale + man, so it literally means a 'man who sells'. That's why a salesman is a person whose job is to sell products or services.