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salesman Definition

sales·man (sālz′mən)

noun pl. -·men-mən

  1. a man employed as a salesclerk
  2. ☆ sales representative

salesman Synonyms

salesman

n.

  1. A sales clerk

    salesperson, seller, counterman; see clerk 1.

  2. A commercial traveler

    sales representative, agent, solicitor; see salesperson 2.

salesman Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • double-glazing: The Victorian Glasgow Botanic Gardens conservatory the largest in Britain is a double-glazing salesman 's wet dream.
  • travel: At the time, James was a traveling salesman dealing in hardware, perhaps for his father's business.
  • employ: I once employed a salesman who'd worked for years at Time Warner.
  • let: And don't let the salesmen call until technical support has told them all issues are resolved.
  • ask: Why would you ask a salesman in a washing machine shop, " Is water metered here?
  • tell: She tells the salesman, " I would like to buy a pair of pink Curtains.

Preposition: for

  • company: Peter is 32 years old and works as a computer salesman for an educational software company.

Adjective modifier

  • snake-oil: The paper's editor accused Ms Gorn's campaign team of acting like " snake-oil salesmen " .
  • door-to-door: In 1938 about 70 % of vacuum cleaners were sold by door-to-door salesmen.
  • pushy: The best defense against pushy salesmen is to know the tire sizes you need.
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  • unscrupulous: But nearly a year on, unscrupulous salesmen are still up to their old tricks.
  • second-hand: Was our speaker being totally honest, or was he behaving like a second-hand car salesman?

Modifies a noun

  • problem: The traveling salesman problem is to find the shortest path for a salesman to visit each of a list of cities.

Noun used with modifier

  • used-car: He should sit in his office and let the used-car salesmen of empire come to him.
  • doorstep: I opened the door to find a doorstep salesman there.
  • Carphone: It's going to do very well, ' says the Carphone salesman.
  • glazing: The double glazing salesman who sits on your tail in his Dagenham dustbin.
  • ice-cream: The necessity to earn more than could be put together by begging, slowly transformed them from itinerant musicians into itinerant ice-cream salesmen.
  • snake: Snake oil salesmen have been selling all sorts of " cures " for many, many years, even up to the present.
salesman Quotes

Shehad the rippling muscles of a panther, thesolidityof a water buffalo, and the lazy insolence of a shoe salesman.

—Perelman, S(ydney) J(oseph)

A salesman isgot to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

—Miller, Arthur

Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life† He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling backöthat's an earthquake.

—Miller, Arthur