as in salesman
a person employed to sell goods or services especially in a store
we asked the salesperson to see if there were any shoes in our size in the stockroom
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Recent Examples of salesperson
Public records link the Florida property searched by agents to Debra Kerr, an education technology salesperson whose clients included AllHere.
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Teresa Liu, Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
The more surface area a brand gains in search, the more its language becomes a product in itself, experienced at the edge of the funnel by people who have never seen an ad or spoken to a salesperson.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
The salesperson wouldn't give consent to be recorded, but promised to remove Turrise's number from their list.
—CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
The Sculptra salesperson had given all us front office ladies SCULPTRA™ tee shirts with the words spelled out in rhinestones across our breasts.
—Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026
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Teresa Liu, Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
The more surface area a brand gains in search, the more its language becomes a product in itself, experienced at the edge of the funnel by people who have never seen an ad or spoken to a salesperson.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
The salesperson wouldn't give consent to be recorded, but promised to remove Turrise's number from their list.
—CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
The Sculptra salesperson had given all us front office ladies SCULPTRA™ tee shirts with the words spelled out in rhinestones across our breasts.
—Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for salesperson
Recent Examples of Synonyms for salesperson
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The partners were Robert Ray Hammond, a boat builder; William Dickerson Gaston, a boat dealer; Robert Alan Shoop, a casket dealer; and Guy William Woodward, an adhesives salesman.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
9 Apr. 2026
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Lou Junod was a charismatic war veteran with a Purple Heart, a travelling handbag salesman, and a husband who was married to the same woman for fifty-nine years.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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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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“Salesperson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salesperson. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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