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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Charles Baxter’s new novel follows the moral travails of a rock-steady insurance salesman in a dystopian Ohio backwater.
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One salesman ignored his out-of-office messages to push for urgent matters.
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Furniture salesman Mark Sullivan was among the passengers who realized that members of the Donner party had frozen to death nearby a century earlier.
—Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
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Dan Alexander, Forbes, 8 Feb. 2025
China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
by Ian Johnson
Sigrid Nunez
A Hero for Cro-MAGA Times
Charles Baxter’s new novel follows the moral travails of a rock-steady insurance salesman in a dystopian Ohio backwater.
—James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2025
One salesman ignored his out-of-office messages to push for urgent matters.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Furniture salesman Mark Sullivan was among the passengers who realized that members of the Donner party had frozen to death nearby a century earlier.
—Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Salesman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salesman. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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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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