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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David Roger Johansen was born on Staten Island, in 1950, where he was raised by a librarian mother and insurance salesman father.
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Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 1 Mar. 2025
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, playing door-to-door Christmas-tree salesmen in sunny Los Angeles, battle an angry would-be customer.
—Heather Kathryn Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
When a young Bible salesman pays a visit to her father’s church, a nascent sense of desire is awakened in Winnie that leads her to the edges of her repression.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 Mar. 2025
For 10 years, Hackman studied acting and worked as a doorman, furniture mover, women's shoe salesman, Howard Johnson's counterman: everyman jobs.
—Ty Burr, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
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Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 1 Mar. 2025
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, playing door-to-door Christmas-tree salesmen in sunny Los Angeles, battle an angry would-be customer.
—Heather Kathryn Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
When a young Bible salesman pays a visit to her father’s church, a nascent sense of desire is awakened in Winnie that leads her to the edges of her repression.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 Mar. 2025
For 10 years, Hackman studied acting and worked as a doorman, furniture mover, women's shoe salesman, Howard Johnson's counterman: everyman jobs.
—Ty Burr, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for salesman
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“Salesman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salesman. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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