salesperson
salesperson noun: a person whose job is to sell things, often in a shop or store.
Noun
salesperson (plural salespersons or salespeople)
- A person whose job is to sell things, often in a shop or store.
- When I was a child, salespeople were usually stationed behind a counter in any given department. […] Having searched in vain for an item and finding a salesperson to ask if the store has it, more often than not you are greeted with, "Do you see it? Then we don't have it."1983 May 15, Linda Dyer, “A CUSTOMER'S RIGHTS”, in The New York Times
- Thus despite sex-typing at Macy's and Target—the placing of salespersons in like-gendered departments and women more often in interactive roles that paid less—women were not much more class-conscious than men.2016, Peter Ikeler, Hard Sell, page 179
salesperson meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Arabic
salesperson in Hindi
- person who sells
- विक्रेता vikretā
salesperson in Tamil
- விற்பனையாளர்
salesperson in Malayalam
- salesman, sales assistant, saleswoman
- വില്പനക്കാരൻ, വാണിഭൻ, കച്ചവടക്കാരൻ, പണ്യപതി, ക്രായകൻ, ക്രായികൻ
salesperson in Arabic
- person who sells
- بَيَّاع bayyāʕ, بَيَّاعَة bayyāʕa
More languagesFewer languages
- salesperson in Malay
- jurujual
- salesperson in Thai
- พนักงานขาย pá-nák-ngaan-kǎai
- salesperson in Vietnamese
- người bán hàng
- salesperson in Myanmar
- ကုန်ရောင်းသူ kunraung:su, အရောင်းစာရေး a.raung:care:, ဈေးသည် jhe:sany
Examples of salesperson in a sentence
- The salesperson had a whole binder full of contacts for potential clients.
- She bought the jeans without trying them on because the salesperson said they were slimming.
- I kicked the tires and then the salesperson invited me to take the car for a spin.
Synonyms of salesperson
Forms of salesperson
| plural | salespersons |
|---|---|
| plural | salespeople |
| alternative form | sales person |
Origin of salesperson
Compound of sales + person.
Words formed from salesperson
Questions about salesperson
- What does salesperson mean?
- Salesperson means a person whose job is to sell things, often in a shop or store.
- What is salesperson in Hindi?
- Salesperson in Hindi is विक्रेता (vikretā). See Salesperson meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is salesperson?
- Salesperson is a noun.
- What is the plural of salesperson?
- The plural of salesperson is salespersons.
Words near salesperson in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: salesperson (page history and authors); salesperson (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); salesperson (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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