as in salesman
a person employed to sell goods or services especially in a store
we asked the salesperson to see if there were any shoes in our size in the stockroom
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Recent Examples of salesperson
Emergent is trying to bring those ideas to the founder in Bangalore, the salesperson in Austin, the consultant in Berlin.
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Mukund Jha, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
An Iranian salesperson sits beside a portrait of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at his fruit shop in the Shahid Boroujerdi residential complex in southern Tehran, Iran, on April 14, 2026.
—Anniek Bao,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
And just like Rue’s transformation into an AR-15 salesperson, so much of this early phase of Euphoria’s return feels completely airless.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
During this time their father worked as an electronics salesperson, and their mother and maternal grandmother accompanied them on film sets.
—Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
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Mukund Jha, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
An Iranian salesperson sits beside a portrait of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at his fruit shop in the Shahid Boroujerdi residential complex in southern Tehran, Iran, on April 14, 2026.
—Anniek Bao,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
And just like Rue’s transformation into an AR-15 salesperson, so much of this early phase of Euphoria’s return feels completely airless.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
During this time their father worked as an electronics salesperson, and their mother and maternal grandmother accompanied them on film sets.
—Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for salesperson
Noun
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The City, for example, includes the German President Paul von Hindenburg, passing by in a motorcar, as well as circus folk and Roma and a regal Turkish mousetrap salesman who might have been painted by Goya.—
Max Norman,
New Yorker,
21 May 2026
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His father was a machinery salesman who is sometimes credited with introducing the gasoline engine to north Arkansas.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 May 2026
Noun
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On March 2, 2023, the jury deliberated for less than three hours before reaching a guilty verdict, which clerk Becky Hill read aloud.—
Andrea Marks,
Rolling Stone,
25 May 2026
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The clerk shared with her that the officiant didn’t turn in the proper paperwork following her ceremony, making her initial license null and void after 60 days.—
Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
23 May 2026
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“Salesperson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salesperson. Accessed 27 May. 2026.
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