travelling salesman

British

noun

Also called: commercial traveller. traveller. a salesman who travels within an assigned territory in order to sell merchandise or to solicit orders for the commercial enterprise he represents by direct personal contact with customers and potential customers

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The son of a travelling salesman, Botero was born in 1932.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2023

A travelling salesman by day, Williams fulfilled his racing ambitions at the weekend and, aged just 24, he launched his own team, Frank Williams Racing Cars.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2021

My dad was a travelling salesman for James Stewart and Co in Ardwick, opposite Manchester Apollo.

From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2020

A travelling salesman awakens one morning, transformed into an insect.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2017

“You are Cyrus Bethman Hardman, United States subject, forty-one years of age, travelling salesman for typewriting ribbons?”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

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