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
There is something about an artist that resembles a liquor salesman.
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Yukio Mishima, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
While her mother was able to attend college, her father worked double shifts as a produce salesman and a postal worker.
—Suzy Exposito, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024
Vidmar and Mills’ interests in the U.S. were represented by a tag-team of Louisiana salesmen, Jarret Flood and Von Boyett, who run WorldConnect IPTV, a company with no website.
—Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
In the film — which traces the years-long romance between Garfield’s earnest salesman Tobias and Pugh’s witty chef Almut amid illness, career and life milestones — standstill traffic, unlucky timing and a lack of better options forces a labor to take place in a gas station bathroom.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2024
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Yukio Mishima, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
While her mother was able to attend college, her father worked double shifts as a produce salesman and a postal worker.
—Suzy Exposito, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024
Vidmar and Mills’ interests in the U.S. were represented by a tag-team of Louisiana salesmen, Jarret Flood and Von Boyett, who run WorldConnect IPTV, a company with no website.
—Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
In the film — which traces the years-long romance between Garfield’s earnest salesman Tobias and Pugh’s witty chef Almut amid illness, career and life milestones — standstill traffic, unlucky timing and a lack of better options forces a labor to take place in a gas station bathroom.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2024
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“Salesman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salesman. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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