plural salesmen
: a person (especially a man) whose job is to sell a product or service in a given territory, in a store, or by telephone compare salesperson, saleswoman
Examples of salesman in a Sentence
He was the company's best salesman last year.
a furniture salesman followed us around the whole time we looked for a new couch
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Managers have always been salesmen, pitching their ideas, their vision, themselves to their players.
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Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Moranis plays Seymour Krelborn, a down-on-his luck plant store salesman who finds a rather special, and lethal, sapling after an eclipse.
—Dan Heching, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024
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Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Moranis plays Seymour Krelborn, a down-on-his luck plant store salesman who finds a rather special, and lethal, sapling after an eclipse.
—Dan Heching, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024
See all Example Sentences for salesman
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“Salesman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salesman. Accessed 3 May. 2024.
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salesman
noun
sales·man
-mən 
: one who sells in a specific territory or in a store
salesmanship
noun
-ˌship
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