salespeople

noun

variants also salespersons
plural of salesperson
as in salesmen
a person employed to sell goods or services especially in a store we asked the salesperson to see if there were any shoes in our size in the stockroom

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Recent Examples of salespeople The profession with the most open job ads was retail salespersons, with 1,616. — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2026 In 2025, a staggering 623,000 people claimed to be home health and personal assistants, making it by far the biggest occupation in the state, far outstripping retail salespersons, nurses or cashiers and waitresses. — Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 18 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for salespeople
  1. salesmen
  2. clerks
Noun
  • Yes, some production was generated against future pharmaceutical salesmen, but the efficiency is difficult to ignore.
    — Brad Evans, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • How many salesmen believed the goal was attainable or even worth chasing?
    — Jeremy Macliver, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of salesmen
Noun
  • The commission agreed to her recommendation that the guidance tell clerks to encourage law enforcement agents planning to come to the polls to be in plain clothes and not uniforms.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • That analysis is an undercount, since many court clerks don’t clearly label attorney filings on their dockets.
    — Samantha Melamed, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of clerks

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“Salespeople.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salespeople. Accessed 22 Oct. 2026.

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