"salesperson" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: salesperson [singular], salespeople [plural]
Etymology: sales + -person Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|sales|person}} sales + -person Head templates: {{noun|2=salespeople}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A salesperson is someone that sells things in a shop or on the go.
    Sense id: simple-salesperson-en-noun-~17vAJc2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -person
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