salesperson

plural salespersons · plural salespeople · alternative sales person

1. A person whose job is to sell things, often in a shop or store.

   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

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   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

   Synonyms: seller, vendor