Synonyms of salesman

salesman

noun

ˈsālz-mən 

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• clerk
• salesperson
• salesclerk
• salespeople
• saleswoman
• salesgirl
• saleslady
• shopgirl
• pitchman
• floorwalker
• pitchwoman

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of salesman

To my knowledge, Carney’s creator is neither crook nor salesman, but Whitehead can lay claim to those other two mantles. — Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026

The books’ primary protagonist, Ray Carney, an ambitious furniture salesman with a criminal lineage, has straightened up the family line and mostly flies right. — Niela Orr, Vulture, 20 July 2026

Gaston had been romantically involved with Lawrence Remsen, a 39-year-old carpet salesman, at the time of her disappearance. — Eleanor Jacobs, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026

By the nineteen-forties, the rebranding of the American salesman as an independent go-getter was well under way, powered by his—and her—exclusion from New Deal labor protections. — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026