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SALESMAN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man salesperson

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("salesman" is a kind of...):

sales rep; sales representative; salesperson (a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "salesman"):

book agent (a book salesman)

pitchman (an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something)

bagman; commercial traveler; commercial traveller; roadman; traveling salesman; travelling salesman (a salesman who travels to call on customers)

Derivation:

salesmanship (skill in selling; skill in persuading people to buy)

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