salesman

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sales=man

CIDE DICTIONARY

salesman, n. [Sale + man.].

 One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

salesman, n. (pl. -men; fem. saleswoman, pl. -women)
1 a person employed to sell goods in a shop, or as an agent between the producer and retailer.
2 US a commercial traveller.

THESAURUS

salesman

agent, clerk, floorwalker, sales agent, sales engineer, sales force, sales manager, sales personnel, salesclerk, salesgirl, saleslady, salespeople, salesperson, saleswoman, scalper, seller, selling agent, shop assistant, shop clerk, store clerk, ticket scalper

ROGET THESAURUS

salesman

Petitioner

N petitioner, solicitor, applicant, suppliant, supplicant, suitor, candidate, claimant, postulant, aspirant, competitor, bidder, place hunter, pot hunter, prizer, seeker, beggar, mendicant, moocher, panhandler, freeloader, sponger, mumper, sturdy beggar, cadger, hotel runner, runner, steerer, tout, touter, pauper, homeless person, hobo, bum, tramp, bindle stiff, bo, knight of the road (poverty), hippie, flower child, hard core unemployed, welfare client, welfare case, canvasser, bagman, salesman.

Merchant

N merchant, trader, dealer, monger, chandler, salesman, changer, regrater, shopkeeper, shopman, tradesman, tradespeople, tradesfolk, retailer, chapman, hawker, huckster, higgler, pedlar, colporteur, cadger, Autolycus, sutler, vivandiere, costerman, costermonger, tallyman, camelot, faker, vintner, money broker, money changer, money lender, cambist, usurer, moneyer, banker, jobber, broker, buyer, seller, bear, bull, concern, firm.