as in clerk
a person employed to sell goods or services especially in a store
a furniture salesman followed us around the whole time we looked for a new couch
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Recent Examples of salesman
The yoga teacher and the software salesman, who were 54 and 27 at the time of filming, immediately hit it off during the inaugural season of Netflix's latest dating experiment.
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Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
Levy, who spent more than three decades climbing from ad salesman to president of Turner Broadcasting, helped secure and renew Turner’s NBA rights, building Inside the NBA into the rare postgame show that, as Bill Simmons puts it, occasionally improved ratings for the actual game.
—Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 31 Mar. 2026
Carrying $14 and two shirts — one of which was far too big for him, his daughter said — Jarad connected with a contact person in Manhattan and began working as a door-to-door salesman in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
Related Stories Henry Rinnan, an ordinary family man and unremarkable salesman, becomes the Gestapo’s most valuable Norwegian agent.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 23 Mar. 2026
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Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
Levy, who spent more than three decades climbing from ad salesman to president of Turner Broadcasting, helped secure and renew Turner’s NBA rights, building Inside the NBA into the rare postgame show that, as Bill Simmons puts it, occasionally improved ratings for the actual game.
—Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 31 Mar. 2026
Carrying $14 and two shirts — one of which was far too big for him, his daughter said — Jarad connected with a contact person in Manhattan and began working as a door-to-door salesman in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
Related Stories Henry Rinnan, an ordinary family man and unremarkable salesman, becomes the Gestapo’s most valuable Norwegian agent.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 23 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for salesman
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This has actually been a plot point of The Pitt’s second season, with a cyber-hack forcing the hospital to temporarily bring back hospital clerk Monica, who blames her layoff on the hospital overly digitizing.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
13 Apr. 2026
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Several candidates, including Marx, pledged to free the former Mesa County clerk, who was convicted for orchestrating a plot to sneak a third party into a secure area to examine voting equipment after the 2020 election.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
12 Apr. 2026
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And just like Rue’s transformation into an AR-15 salesperson, so much of this early phase of Euphoria’s return feels completely airless.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2026
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She was supposed to start paying herself in January, but then the number-one salesperson at a competitor approached her for a job.—
Madeline Bilis,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Salesman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salesman. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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