travelling salesman

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noun

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 customersAlso called: commercial traveller, traveller

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Words nearby travelling salesman

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How to use travelling salesman in a sentence

The 289-page satire follows Morris Feldstein, a pharmaceutical salesman who gets seduced by a lonely receptionist.
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Capaldi said the nature of the character—a time-travelling alien—meant his successor could take any form.
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I wonder if the seasoned salesman can spot the billionaires on sight.
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In the same interview, he told an anecdote about what it means to be a good salesman.
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Except George Spahn had no such dream, nor was he a Midwestern Model T salesman.
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I hate to be long at my toilette at any time; but to delay much in such a matter while travelling is folly.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
To think,” said the younger Englishwoman to her sister, “of this wee mite travelling about in an open motor!
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The motherly woman received the babe instinctively and cast aside the travelling-rug in which he was enveloped.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
Progress: an old term for the travelling of the sovereign to different parts of his country.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
It is a great thing for the musical education of the country to have such an organization travelling every winter.
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