noun
a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited)
• Syn: ↑salesperson, ↑sales representative
• Hypernyms: ↑employee
• Hyponyms:
↑demonstrator, ↑sales demonstrator, ↑salesclerk, ↑shop clerk, ↑clerk, ↑shop assistant, ↑salesgirl, ↑saleswoman, ↑saleslady, ↑salesman
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Informal.
See sales representative.
[1965-70]
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sales rep variant UK US
Main entry: sales representative
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an employee of a company who travels around a particular area selling the company's goods to shops/stores, etc.
See also: ↑rep
Useful english dictionary. 2012.