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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Dismissing optimism from the head of a league is easy; after all, part of the job description is being a salesperson for the sport.
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Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
The salesperson in the custom knife shop with a $1,200 pizza cutter on offer — albeit the most beautiful pizza cutter I, personally, have ever seen — said that more customers had started to trickle in now that the fervor on Main Street had died down and the roads were clearer.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 7 Feb. 2026
Most of their spending went toward salaries and stock grants for the engineers and salespeople who worked there.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 6 Feb. 2026
And there is less opportunity for dealers to upcharge and more pressure on salespeople to sell vehicles for the lowest price, Whiston said.
—Summer Ballentine, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
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Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
The salesperson in the custom knife shop with a $1,200 pizza cutter on offer — albeit the most beautiful pizza cutter I, personally, have ever seen — said that more customers had started to trickle in now that the fervor on Main Street had died down and the roads were clearer.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 7 Feb. 2026
Most of their spending went toward salaries and stock grants for the engineers and salespeople who worked there.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 6 Feb. 2026
And there is less opportunity for dealers to upcharge and more pressure on salespeople to sell vehicles for the lowest price, Whiston said.
—Summer Ballentine, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
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 14 Feb. 2026.
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salesperson
noun
sales·per·son
-ˌpərs-ᵊn
: a person employed to sell goods or services
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