Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who is a salesperson.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who waits upon customers in a shop or store, and exhibits wares to them for sale.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
woman whoseoccupation it is tosell things.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman salesperson
Etymologies
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Examples
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The scene contains elements of a fairy tale: the saleswoman is dressing Cinderella for her assignation with the prince, who has no idea at all that she is coming.
A Quiet Genius 2001
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The scene contains elements of a fairy tale: the saleswoman is dressing Cinderella for her assignation with the prince, who has no idea at all that she is coming.
A Quiet Genius 2001
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"Cash!" called the saleswoman, tapping on the counter with her pencil.
The Telegraph Boy Horatio Alger 1865
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I strongly take issue with a college admissions officer's categorization of me as a "saleswoman" who provides a frivolous service ( "unnecessary orthodontia") to students applying to college ( "Independent Counsel," by Nicholas Confessore, October Atlantic).
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I strongly take issue with a college admissions officer's categorization of me as a "saleswoman" who provides a frivolous service ( "unnecessary orthodontia") to students applying to college ( "Independent Counsel," by Nicholas Confessore, October Atlantic).
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No girl, not even Dora Stein herself, would dare risk offending any other of the floorwalkers, men able to break a saleswoman if they "got
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This ferocious love of pleasure was perhaps best articulated by a New York saleswoman who helped many of these women prepare for nights out: “You see some of those who have complained about standing spend most of the evening in dancing.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Instead, she was a saleswoman and the product she was hawking was herself.
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Celma de Almeida, a garment saleswoman, says she didn't like the capivari at first.
In Pockets of Booming Brazil, a Mint Idea Gains Currency Paulo Prada 2011
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Imaginechina/Zumapress.com A saleswoman, right, showed clay rabbits to a customer at a shop in Jinan, east China's Shandong province, on Sept. 1.
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