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saleswoman

noun

Definition of saleswoman

as in saleslady

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Recent Examples of saleswoman At the request of WWD, Balenciaga’s current archive team unearthed a yellowed page from that order book for the spring 1966 season, her saleswoman Mademoiselle Margot detailing dresses, pants, coats and suits at prices ranging from 1,500 to 11,000 French francs. — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 26 May 2026 Something tells us this furniture saleswoman should quit her day job. — Andy Swift, TVLine, 29 Sep. 2025 The mattress saleswoman Mare and Ned deal with doesn’t have the power to make the company honor the spirit of the law. — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025 The shapely 24-year-old advertising saleswoman wore a black swimsuit with a white Playboy bunny across the front. — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for saleswoman

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The saleslady wears a glitter cloth mask, long glitter fingernails and a blond dye job that’s tinted her scalp.

— Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
The saleslady senses his unease and gravitates toward my daughter.

— Melissa Petro, Time, 3 Nov. 2022

Definition of saleslady

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Her tragicomic shopgirl of skid row belted her way into audiences’ hearts off-Broadway in 1982, and then in Frank Oz’s 1986 film opposite Rick Moranis.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
While working as a shopgirl, the young Evelyn is recruited as a studio model and soon catches the eye of the preeminent artists of the age.

— Danielle Parker, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026

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The profession with the most open job ads was retail salespersons, with 1,616.

— Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2026
In 2025, a staggering 623,000 people claimed to be home health and personal assistants, making it by far the biggest occupation in the state, far outstripping retail salespersons, nurses or cashiers and waitresses.

— Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 18 Jan. 2026

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