salesperson
noun
sales·per·son
ˈsālz-ˌpər-sᵊn 
plural salespeople
ˈsālz-ˌpē-pəl
also salespersons
also salespersons
: a person whose job is to sell a product or service in a given territory, in a store, or by telephone : a salesman or saleswoman
Examples of salesperson in a Sentence
The company is hiring new salespeople.
we asked the salesperson to see if there were any shoes in our size in the stockroom
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That's handy for salespeople who don’t want to repeat the same message every time for cold calls.
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John Brandon, PCMAG, 17 Oct. 2024
But being a retail salesperson, which is the core of being an OnlyFans model, is not scalable.
—Joel Stein, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
So the princess thanked the salesperson and found a pair of those same exact shoes at a second-hand shoppe, lightly worn, for a mere ten shillings.
—Kerry Elson, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
At a nearby shop, salesperson Nina Davydova and her teenage daughter, Victoria, discuss the toll of constant strikes.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2024
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John Brandon, PCMAG, 17 Oct. 2024
But being a retail salesperson, which is the core of being an OnlyFans model, is not scalable.
—Joel Stein, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
So the princess thanked the salesperson and found a pair of those same exact shoes at a second-hand shoppe, lightly worn, for a mere ten shillings.
—Kerry Elson, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
At a nearby shop, salesperson Nina Davydova and her teenage daughter, Victoria, discuss the toll of constant strikes.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Salesperson.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salesperson. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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salesperson
noun
sales·per·son
-ˌpərs-ᵊn
: a person employed to sell goods or services
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