travelling salesman

British  

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

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

However, he felt obliged to follow a more responsible path after the death of his father, a travelling salesman.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2019

A. P. Carter, the band’s patriarch, had worked as a travelling salesman, during which time he roamed central Appalachia, knocking on doors and “collecting” old folk songs.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2019

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

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2017

At this point the priest left and I told the story about the travelling salesman who arrived at five o’clock in the morning at Marseilles when the mistral was blowing.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway