as in clerk
a person employed to sell goods or services especially in a store
a furniture salesman followed us around the whole time we looked for a new couch
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Recent Examples of salesman
And yet in conversation Ericsson never struck me as a salesman for his invention.
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Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Young funeral salesman Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng) – having discovered keys in the door one day – occasionally occupies the space to secretly act out displays of
repressed identity.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
His father, Charles, was a salesman for a company that sold fixtures to supermarkets, and his mother, Elsa, was a housewife who played the piano.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 30 Mar. 2025
Everybody plays numerous parts, assigned without regard to gender (there’s even a cameo for Fleming), but the anchors are Cumming’s Cholmondeley, the nerd who came up the audacious idea, and Hodgson’s Montagu, the operation’s main manager and salesman.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
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Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Young funeral salesman Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng) – having discovered keys in the door one day – occasionally occupies the space to secretly act out displays of
repressed identity.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
His father, Charles, was a salesman for a company that sold fixtures to supermarkets, and his mother, Elsa, was a housewife who played the piano.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 30 Mar. 2025
Everybody plays numerous parts, assigned without regard to gender (there’s even a cameo for Fleming), but the anchors are Cumming’s Cholmondeley, the nerd who came up the audacious idea, and Hodgson’s Montagu, the operation’s main manager and salesman.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Salesman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salesman. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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