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 rep
• Hypernyms: ↑employee
• Hyponyms:
↑demonstrator, ↑sales demonstrator, ↑salesclerk, ↑shop clerk, ↑clerk, ↑shop assistant, ↑salesgirl, ↑saleswoman, ↑saleslady, ↑salesman
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noun : representative 3e
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1. a person or organization designated by a company to solicit business on its behalf in a specified territory or foreign country: I suggest you contact our Chicago sales representative.
2. See traveling salesman.
[1945-50]
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sales representative UK US noun [countable] [singular sales representative plural sales representatives]
someone whose job is to travel to different places and sell the products or services of a particular company
Thesaurus: people who travelhyponym general words for people who sell things or work in shopshyponym
Variant: sales rep
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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.