salesperson
noun
sales·per·son
ˈsālz-ˌpər-sᵊn 
plural salespeople
ˈsālz-ˌpē-pəl
also salespersons
also salespersons
: a person whose job is to sell a product or service in a given territory, in a store, or by telephone : a salesman or saleswoman
Examples of salesperson in a Sentence
The company is hiring new salespeople.
we asked the salesperson to see if there were any shoes in our size in the stockroom
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Your customer support person, who is having 100 conversations with customers daily, could be your next all-star salesperson.
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Nolan Hout, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
She's been a race director, a recruiter for Team in Training for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, a salesperson for a major pharmaceutical company, a blogger for Moogfest, a communications manager for Mission Health, a fitness instructor, and a health coach.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1983 drama is set in a cutthroat Chicago real estate office where four salespeople compete to sell mostly worthless properties to unwitting customers.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025
In fact, the challenge relates to one of the most intractable problems in algorithmics: the traveling salesperson problem.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2025
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Nolan Hout, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
She's been a race director, a recruiter for Team in Training for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, a salesperson for a major pharmaceutical company, a blogger for Moogfest, a communications manager for Mission Health, a fitness instructor, and a health coach.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1983 drama is set in a cutthroat Chicago real estate office where four salespeople compete to sell mostly worthless properties to unwitting customers.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025
In fact, the challenge relates to one of the most intractable problems in algorithmics: the traveling salesperson problem.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for salesperson
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“Salesperson.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salesperson. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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salesperson
noun
sales·per·son
-ˌpərs-ᵊn
: a person employed to sell goods or services
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