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Salesman


Definition:

  • (n.) One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  • (2) The global face of Britain is now a buffoon (as many in Brussels describe him), whose word is as reliable as a used-car salesman’s.
  • (3) The salesman, who had no medical training, arrived each week with pizza to assure Masih that claims of addiction were exaggerated and to press him to prescribe more of the drug.
  • (4) But another lawsuit against Zuckerberg, by Paul Ceglia , a New York-based former wood-pellet salesman who argues that a 2003 contract with Zuckerberg gives him a claim to a large share of the company, which was started in 2004, continues.
  • (5) Branded cigarettes are 'badge' products, frequently on display, which therefore act as a 'silent salesman'.
  • (6) The best bond salesman ever would struggle to sell a billion pounds worth of gilts every day.
  • (7) He has taken on stints as a stable hand, been a door-to-door salesman and set up stages for local concerts: rarely does David Pena turn down a job.
  • (8) The story is influenced by Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
  • (9) His father, an insurance salesman, played the cello and his mother the piano.
  • (10) The Salesman wins best foreign language Oscar Read more Speaking hours before the Oscars ceremony in Hollywood, Asghar Farhadi said the movement against the US president empowered people to “say no to oppressive political powers everywhere”.
  • (11) My father [an insurance salesman] thought it was a wonderful movie and, indeed, was well known as the only person in his particular peer group who had understood the movie.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joko Widodo, widely expected to be Indonesia's next president, is a former furniture salesman and mayor of the central Javan city of Surakarta – and is another political anomaly.
  • (13) It certainly isn't the sort of deal that would have been offered or accepted had the salesman appeared on your doorstep.
  • (14) The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, former prime minister John Major and the archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby have also weighed in against the energy companies, which the latest polls show are less trusted than banks and car salesman.
  • (15) AstraZeneca's chief executive, Pascal Soriot, brought a new focus on science when he took over from David Brennan, a former salesman, 18 months ago.
  • (16) The gang convicted today were: Lea Rusha, 35, a former roofer of Lambersart Close, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; car salesman Stuart Royle, 49, of Allen Street, Maidstone, Kent; unemployed Jetmir Bucpapa, 26, of Hadlow Road, Tonbridge; garage owner Roger Coutts, 30, of The Green, Welling, south-east London; and Emir Hysenaj, 28, a Post Office worker, of New Road, Crowborough, East Sussex.
  • (17) The @USAdarFarsi account, which launched in February 2011 and seeks to engage directly with Iranians, had previously tweeted messages about The Salesman, including on 24 January when it noted its Academy Award nomination and sent best wishes to Farhadi.
  • (18) Vaz, who reportedly told the men his name was Jim and that he was a washing machine salesman, is also quoted discussing with the men the possibility of obtaining cocaine for the next time they met, although Vaz reportedly said he would not want to take the drug himself.
  • (19) Instead, his pitch was that he was a dealmaker and salesman who could use his gift of the gab and “art of the deal” to break gridlock in Washington DC.
  • (20) The tragedy is that Brown's many admirable qualities and instincts – his social conscience and moral compass – could have been more constructively and generously deployed in shaping Blair's instincts and salesman's skills: they showed at the G7's Africa summit in Gleneagles (2005) what they could do together.

Salesperson


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Today's proponents of unorthodox therapy are well-educated, media-conscious, and effective salespersons.
  • (2) There was disappointment” among her Negroland relatives, whom Jefferson describes as “endlessly tolerant of the act” of passing for white, that Lucius “had only become a salesperson”.
  • (3) But the salesperson said that since the faxes started going out on Thursday he personally had taken 15 (individual) orders, and that interest was running higher than for the recently released range of BlackBerry phones (which you would expect would do better than iPhones, being usually thought of as a business phone).
  • (4) The author proposes some ideas salespersons resort to when customer's persuasion is at stake, since he understands these ideas are likely to maximize psychiatrists' persuasive ability.
  • (5) • A Barclays salesperson described “the deluge of Fremont garbage being put out there”, the DoJ said.
  • (6) "My salesperson wanted to give her the handbag in her hand.
  • (7) The salesperson who found my purse opened it on her own and said that there was no phone contact visible.
  • (8) It was, all in all, a decent pitch from a likeable salesperson.
  • (9) There are certain expectations that salespersons need to be aware of to have continued business, quality time, and an invitation to return to the surgery department.
  • (10) "People are starting to treat air purifiers as a necessary appliance like a washing machine or computer," said Bi Xiuyan, a 56-year-old product salesperson for Amway.
  • (11) He was a great salesperson and a task master," La Maina said.
  • (12) Dispositionally optimistic salespersons were observed to rely more on problem-focused coping strategies, while pessimists engaged in emotion-focused coping.
  • (13) Why on earth would you not want a snappy salesperson wandering up and asking for your email address, your address and postcode, and your date of birth, so that this valuable private data can be sold on to myriad companies?
  • (14) This verdict has revealed a deliberate tactic by SSE, not the behaviour of a rogue salesperson.
  • (15) These results allow this study to emphasize the followings in order to raise the awareness of the laboratory workers: (i) alteration of disk efficacy during transportation and storage; (ii) major considerations in choosing different brands' antimicrobial disks, and (iii) the important roles played by salespersons and pharmaceutical companies in achieving sound results.
  • (16) She allegedly filled in some details on one of the forms but told a salesperson she could not read one of the forms, so the representative asked her questions and wrote down answers for her, then she signed it.
  • (17) Sara, a 29-year-old cosmetics salesperson, says: "I'm not going to vote at all.
  • (18) Once a Foxtons salesperson gets their talons in, it is hard to shake them off.
  • (19) The employee said a company salesperson had promoted the drug to an NHS consultant in an email.