Definition of "salesperson" [salesperson]

• A salesman or a saleswoman. (noun)

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• "During workshops we regularly ask sales draftees to play a word association game around the term "salesperson.""
• "After several months of sampling both chains and independents, I have come to the conclusion that the average chain salesperson is neither more nor less ignorant than his or her counterpart in the independents."
• "And when they're sitting there and they're having a conversation with a salesperson, the salesperson is selling the other person based on emotion."