plural salesmen
: a person (especially a man) whose job is to sell a product or service in a given territory, in a store, or by telephone compare salesperson, saleswoman
Examples of salesman in a Sentence
He was the company's best salesman last year.
a furniture salesman followed us around the whole time we looked for a new couch
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When Marty Supreme opens, Chalamet's Marty Mauser is working as a shoe salesman — a position Reisman really held for a few days, according to Smithsonian Magazine.
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Avalon Hester, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
Good on Dale ignoring tech salesmen hawking equipment that means good men will get laid off.
—William Earl, Variety, 21 Dec. 2025
The film’s first scene features a tryst, in a back room of a shoe store, between the protagonist, a twenty-three-year-old salesman named Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), and a young married woman named Rachel (Odessa A’zion).
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
According to the Poetry Foundation, Fitzpatrick grew up in the western suburb of Lombard, where his father worked as a burial vault salesman.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
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Avalon Hester, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
Good on Dale ignoring tech salesmen hawking equipment that means good men will get laid off.
—William Earl, Variety, 21 Dec. 2025
The film’s first scene features a tryst, in a back room of a shoe store, between the protagonist, a twenty-three-year-old salesman named Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), and a young married woman named Rachel (Odessa A’zion).
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
According to the Poetry Foundation, Fitzpatrick grew up in the western suburb of Lombard, where his father worked as a burial vault salesman.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
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“Salesman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salesman. Accessed 1 Jan. 2026.
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salesman
noun
sales·man
-mən 
: one who sells in a specific territory or in a store
salesmanship
noun
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