traveling salesman
noun
: a traveling representative of a business concern who solicits orders usually in an assigned territory
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And the road rage is palpable and knuckle-clenching as a traveling salesman tries to avoid getting run off the road and killed by a vengeful big rig driver.
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 June 2025
When schoolgirl Margo stumbles onto the wrong train, she is taken under the wing of traveling salesman Moon, who teaches her his trade: how to move between fast and slow worlds, forever evading the deadly skipshock.
—Natalie Zutter
june 2, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
Teenage Fox had an electric guitar without an amp and soon started playing music with his younger brother, Tommy, who made a percussion instrument out of an oversize suitcase from their father’s days as a traveling salesman.
—Nate Rogers, Vulture, 22 May 2025
Think about the factory worker that feels threatened by automation, or the traveling salesman, the last of whom have no leg to stand on against e-commerce’s decimation of their profession.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 June 2025
When schoolgirl Margo stumbles onto the wrong train, she is taken under the wing of traveling salesman Moon, who teaches her his trade: how to move between fast and slow worlds, forever evading the deadly skipshock.
—Natalie Zutter
june 2, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
Teenage Fox had an electric guitar without an amp and soon started playing music with his younger brother, Tommy, who made a percussion instrument out of an oversize suitcase from their father’s days as a traveling salesman.
—Nate Rogers, Vulture, 22 May 2025
Think about the factory worker that feels threatened by automation, or the traveling salesman, the last of whom have no leg to stand on against e-commerce’s decimation of their profession.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for traveling salesman
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“Traveling salesman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traveling%20salesman. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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