salesperson

noun

sales·​per·​son ˈsālz-ˌpər-sᵊn 

plural salespeople ˈsālz-ˌpē-pəl  also salespersons

: a person whose job is to sell a product or service in a given territory, in a store, or by telephone : a salesman or saleswoman

Synonyms of salesperson

• salesman
• clerk

Examples of salesperson in a Sentence

The company is hiring new salespeople.

we asked the salesperson to see if there were any shoes in our size in the stockroom

Recent Examples on the Web

Half of them saw a video without problems, while the rest watched one that had been altered by the researchers so that the screen briefly froze during the pauses in the salesperson's speech; the video was glitchy but none of the actual information in the sales pitch got lost. —Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 3 Dec. 2025

Several divisions at Microsoft have lowered quotas for how much salespeople are supposed to increase sales of certain AI products after many of them missed their targets in the fiscal year that ended in June, the Information reported, citing two salespeople in the Azure cloud division. —Bloomberg, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025

The quota was dropped to 50% after most salespeople didn’t meet it. —Chris Eudaily, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2025

The salesperson and her customer. —The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1844, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for salesperson

• businessperson
• chairperson
• layperson
• person
• worsen

Kids Definition

salesperson

noun

sales·​per·​son -ˌpərs-ᵊn 

: a person employed to sell goods or services