salesperson
noun
sales·per·son
ˈsālz-ˌpər-sᵊn 
plural salespeople
ˈsālz-ˌpē-pəl
also salespersons
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
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
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Alongside this was criticism that Salesforce was focusing too much on its agentic AI offering, Agentforce, and neglecting its core business applications used by marketing teams, customer service reps, and salespeople.
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Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
Too often, the top individual performer ‒ the best salesperson or engineer ‒ is elevated into management with little or no training.
—Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
The product of Catholic schools, Markey, as a young man, was the driver and salesperson for an ice cream truck in Lexington, Massachusetts.
—David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
That’s the old-fashioned snake-oil salesperson, who, in a modern context, might claim that seed oils are bad for you (it’s been widely debunked) just to sell you, say, olive oil.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 2 Oct. 2025
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Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
Too often, the top individual performer ‒ the best salesperson or engineer ‒ is elevated into management with little or no training.
—Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
The product of Catholic schools, Markey, as a young man, was the driver and salesperson for an ice cream truck in Lexington, Massachusetts.
—David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
That’s the old-fashioned snake-oil salesperson, who, in a modern context, might claim that seed oils are bad for you (it’s been widely debunked) just to sell you, say, olive oil.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 2 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for salesperson
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“Salesperson.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salesperson. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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salesperson
noun
sales·per·son
-ˌpərs-ᵊn
: a person employed to sell goods or services
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