: a traveling representative of a business concern who solicits orders usually in an assigned territory
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Recent Examples on the WebThus, the idea of the traveling salesman Hill swindling the locals into investing in a boys’ marching band, with the intent of skipping town before teaching them a note, held up as well. Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 29 June 2022 Hugh Jackman is back on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theater playing traveling salesman Harold Hill in Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man. John Hayes, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2022 Finney, 75, was a retired traveling salesman and Army veteran. Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022 Another legend is that of The Leatherman, who is embodied in Brownell’s story as a traveling salesman of French descent. Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2022 Theatreworks of SoIN presents the story of Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman who lives life to its fullest. Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 6 Apr. 2022 Dennis Weaver is a traveling salesman in the Mojave Desert who passes a tanker truck. Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 24 Mar. 2022 His father was a traveling salesman of sewing supplies. James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022 This Professor Hill seems less a traveling salesman than a song-and-dance man on a second-class national tour.Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2022 See More