SALESPERSON (salespeople)

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Irregular inflected form: salespeople   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does salesperson mean? 

• SALESPERSON (noun)
  The noun SALESPERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited)

  Familiarity information: SALESPERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALESPERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

sales rep; sales representative; salesperson

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

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

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

demonstrator; sales demonstrator (someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer)

clerk; salesclerk; shop assistant; shop clerk (a salesperson in a store)

salesgirl; saleslady; saleswoman (a woman salesperson)

salesman (a man salesperson)