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salesperson

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: seller, vendor

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sales representative, sales rep

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: employee

Narrower terms: demonstrator, sales demonstrator, salesclerk, shop clerk, clerk, shop assistant, salesgirl, saleswoman, saleslady, salesman

History

Etymology

Compound of sales + person.

Across languages

Translations

110 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: shitës — person who sells
  • Arabic: بَيَّاع (bayyāʕ) — person who sells
  • Arabic: بَيَّاعَة (bayyāʕa) — person who sells
  • Armenian: վաճառող (vačaṙoġ) — person who sells
  • Armenian: գործակատար (gorcakatar) — person who sells
  • Azerbaijani: satıcı — person who sells
  • Belarusian: прадаве́ц (pradavjéc) — person who sells
  • Belarusian: прадаўшчы́ца (pradawščýca) — person who sells
  • Bulgarian: продава́ч (prodaváč) — person who sells
  • Bulgarian: продава́чка (prodaváčka) — person who sells
  • Burmese: ကုန်ရောင်းသူ (kunraung:su) — person who sells
  • Burmese: အရောင်းစာရေး (a.raung:care:) — person who sells
  • Burmese: ဈေးသည် (jhe:sany) — person who sells
  • Catalan: dependent — person who sells
  • Catalan: venedor — person who sells
  • Chechen: йохкархо (joxkarxo) — person who sells
  • Chinese Mandarin: 售貨員 /售货员 (shòuhuòyuán) — person who sells
  • Chinese Mandarin: 推銷員 /推销员 (tuīxiāoyuán) — person who sells
  • Chinese Mandarin: 銷售 /销售 (xiāoshòu) — person who sells
  • Czech: prodavač — person who sells
  • Czech: prodavačka — person who sells
  • Danish: sælger — person who sells
  • Dutch: verkoper — person who sells
  • Dutch: verkoopster — person who sells
  • Esperanto: vendisto — person who sells
  • Esperanto: virvendisto — person who sells
  • Esperanto: vendistiĉo — person who sells
  • Esperanto: vendistino — person who sells
  • Estonian: müüja — person who sells
  • Finnish: myyjä — person who sells
  • French: vendeur — person who sells
  • French: vendeuse — person who sells
  • Georgian: გამყიდველი (gamq̇idveli) — person who sells
  • German: Verkäufer — person who sells
  • German: Verkäuferin — person who sells
  • Greek: πωλητής (politís) — person who sells
  • Greek: πωλήτρια (polítria) — person who sells
  • Hebrew: מוֹכֵר (mokhér) — person who sells
  • Hebrew: מוֹכֶרֶת (mokhéret) — person who sells
  • Hindi: विक्रेता (vikretā) — person who sells
  • Hungarian: elárusító — person who sells
  • Hungarian: eladó — person who sells
  • Icelandic: sölumaður — person who sells
  • Ido: vendisto — person who sells
  • Ido: vendistulo — person who sells
  • Ido: vendistino — person who sells
  • Italian: venditore — person who sells
  • Italian: venditrice — person who sells
  • Italian: commesso — person who sells
  • Italian: commessa — person who sells
  • Japanese: 店員 (ten'in) — person who sells
  • Japanese: 売り手 (urite) — person who sells
  • Japanese: 販売者 (hanbaisha) — person who sells
  • Kazakh: сатушы (satuşy) — person who sells
  • Khmer: អាបណក (ʼaapaʼnaʼkɑɑ) — person who sells
  • Korean: 판매원 (panmaewon) — person who sells
  • Korean: 점원 (jeomwon) — person who sells
  • Northern Kurdish: firoşer — person who sells
  • Northern Kurdish: firoşkar — person who sells
  • Northern Kurdish: firoşyar — person who sells
  • Kyrgyz: сатуучу (satuucu) — person who sells
  • Lao: ພະນັກງານຂາຍ (pha nak ngān khāi) — person who sells
  • Latvian: pārdevējs — person who sells
  • Latvian: pārdevēja — person who sells
  • Lithuanian: pardavėjas — person who sells
  • Lithuanian: pardavėja — person who sells
  • Macedonian: продавач (prodavač) — person who sells
  • Macedonian: продавачка (prodavačka) — person who sells
  • Malay: jurujual — person who sells
  • Mongolian: худалдаачин (xudaldaačin) — person who sells
  • Norwegian Bokmål: selger — person who sells
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: seljar — person who sells
  • Dari: فُروشِنْدَه (furōšinda) — person who sells
  • Iranian Persian: فُروشَنْدِه (forušande) — person who sells
  • Polish: sprzedawca — person who sells
  • Polish: sprzedawczyni — person who sells
  • Portuguese: vendedor — person who sells
  • Portuguese: vendedora — person who sells
  • Romanian: vânzător — person who sells
  • Romanian: vânzătoare — person who sells
  • Russian: продаве́ц (prodavéc) — person who sells
  • Russian: продавщи́ца (prodavščíca) — person who sells
  • Russian: торго́вец (torgóvec) — person who sells
  • Russian: торго́вка (torgóvka) — person who sells
  • Scottish Gaelic: neach-reic — person who sells
  • Scottish Gaelic: reiceadair — person who sells
  • Serbo-Croatian: прода̀ва̄ч — person who sells
  • Serbo-Croatian: продава̀чица — person who sells
  • Serbo-Croatian: prodàvāč — person who sells
  • Serbo-Croatian: prodavàčica — person who sells
  • Slovak: predavač — person who sells
  • Slovak: predavačka — person who sells
  • Slovene: prodajalec — person who sells
  • Slovene: prodajalka — person who sells
  • Spanish: vendedor — person who sells
  • Spanish: vendedora — person who sells
  • Swedish: försäljare — person who sells
  • Swedish: försäljerska — person who sells
  • Tajik: фурӯшанда (furüšanda) — person who sells
  • Thai: พนักงานขาย (pá-nák-ngaan-kǎai) — person who sells
  • Turkish: satıcı — person who sells
  • Turkmen: satyjy — person who sells
  • Ukrainian: продаве́ць (prodavécʹ) — person who sells
  • Ukrainian: продавщи́ця (prodavščýcja) — person who sells
  • Ukrainian: продава́льниця (prodaválʹnycja) — person who sells
  • Uyghur: ساتقۇچى (satquchi) — person who sells
  • Uzbek: sotuvchi — person who sells
  • Vietnamese: người bán hàng — person who sells
  • Yiddish: פֿאַרקויפֿער (farkoyfer) — person who sells
  • Yiddish: פֿאַרקויפֿערין (farkoyferin) — person who sells