salespeople

plural noun

sales·​peo·​ple ˈsālz-ˌpē-pəl 

: persons employed to sell goods or services

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

No salespeople, no secretaries, no nobody except for the producers and writers were allowed in those Monday morning meetings. —Steve Baltin, Forbes, 6 May 2023

Last year alone, the company hired two new top-notch salespeople (most of whom worked previously for big-brand names), bringing the total to seven, and another watchmaker — also bringing the total to seven. —Roberta Naas, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023

He was struck by a sense of desperation among the salespeople. —Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023

Directed by Ben Affleck with a screenplay by Alex Convery, ‘Air’ is a soulless dramatization of how a giant corporation convinced a promising NBA rookie to make its already wealthy and well-off board members, CEOs, and salespeople even wealthier and set for life. —Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023

That came after Salesforce reportedly assigned top salespeople unrealistic goals, such as signing hard-to-win customers. —Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2023

Presentation skills are a must for this level for many reasons, but the most important one is that these executives are typically the first company salespeople. —Expert Panel, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023

Long ago, on gloomy February days with the roads a mess, car salespeople in Massachusetts would chain-smoke and complain how few customers came into their showrooms during the coldest, shortest month of the year. —Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 18 Feb. 2023

Tad Friend’s safari into the world of modern-day door-to-door salespeople? —Longreads, 29 Dec. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1876, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

salespeople

noun plural

sales·​peo·​ple -ˌpē-pəl 

: people employed to sell goods or services