salesperson

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,748 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: salespeople, salespersons

A salesperson is a person whose job is persuading customers to buy. A good salesperson, ask a salesperson, the top salesperson.

The word replaced salesman and saleswoman as the neutral term, and the plural is salespeople. Commission is what shapes the job: a salesperson paid on commission has an interest that is not quite yours.

Definitions of salesperson

1nounsalespersonA person whose job is persuading customers to buy.B2+
“The salesperson tried to talk us into buying the more expensive television.”

salesperson is a worker.

Where it comes from

sales + person.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Jobs & Professions

Practise this word

salesperson in the wild

Cold calling is the solicitation of business from potential customers who have had no prior contact with the salesperson conducting the call.
Cold calling
On the other hand, prospects tend to consider the technique intrusive, and it is relatively inefficient and fatiguing for the soliciting salesperson.
Cold calling
Flo is a fictional salesperson appearing in more than 1,000 advertisements for Progressive Insurance since 2008.
Flo (Progressive Insurance)
A sales territory is the customer group or geographical area for which an individual salesperson or a sales team holds responsibility.
Sales territory
The structure of a sales territory can vary by salesperson or sales team depending on the product they sell or the company that they work for.
Sales territory

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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