"telesalesman" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: telesalesmen [plural]
Etymology: tele- + sales + -man Etymology templates: {{confix|en|tele|sales|man}} tele- + sales + -man Head templates: {{en-noun|telesalesmen}} telesalesman (plural telesalesmen)
  1. Synonym of telemarketer Synonyms: telemarketer [synonym, synonym-of]

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 248",
          "text": "Simon Dean was a telesalesman for a life-assurance company, or that's what he probably still thought he was, though one of his last acts before leaving work, according to the rigorously backed-up e-mail system his company maintained, had been to send a resignation note to his boss, accompanied by a detailed account of Simon's intentions regarding the boss's teenage daughter.",
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        {
          "ref": "2016, David W Stewart, Healthy, Wealthy or Wise?: Issues in American Health Care Policy",
          "text": "If extroversion drugs lead every stranger, every telesalesman to address me by my first name (too many do already) and intrude a feigned intimacy, give me Grant Wood!",
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          "ref": "2022, Christopher Beach, Rubik's Cube: Solve the Puzzle, save the World.",
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