"salesman" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-salesman.wav [US] Forms: salesman [singular], salesmen [plural]
Etymology: sales + -man Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|sales|man}} sales + -man Head templates: {{noun|2=salesmen}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A salesman is a man that sells things in a shop or on the go.
    Sense id: simple-salesman-en-noun-5c1B8qbq
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -man
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