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
So what makes for a good salesperson?
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David Moin, Footwear News, 18 Feb. 2026
Dismissing optimism from the head of a league is easy; after all, part of the job description is being a salesperson for the sport.
—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
But the benefits don’t end there, according to my salesperson.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 31 Jan. 2026
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David Moin, Footwear News, 18 Feb. 2026
Dismissing optimism from the head of a league is easy; after all, part of the job description is being a salesperson for the sport.
—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
But the benefits don’t end there, according to my salesperson.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 31 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for salesperson
Recent Examples of Synonyms for salesperson
Noun
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Robert Chan, at the time a valedictorian candidate at Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, orchestrated Tay’s killing after Chan and Tay had a falling out over what had been a mutual plan to rob a computer salesman.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
4 Mar. 2026
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One is the great salesman, promoter, and the other sort of what [the Colonel] thought was a carnival act but turned out to be sort of Orpheus.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Mar. 2026
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According to the union, the tentative agreement would still need to be ratified by a majority of about 220 clerks before being adopted as a contract.—
Tim Fang,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 2026
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This includes a comic scene about proofreading the monotonous legal documents that clerks like Bartleby were paid pennies to copy, and a scene at the end where a jail cook rattles off all the former occupations of its now-nameless inmates.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Salesperson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salesperson. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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