salesperson

English

Etymology

Compound of sales +‎ person.

Noun

salesperson (plural salespersons or salespeople)

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

   Synonyms: seller, vendor

   • 1983 May 15, Linda Dyer, “A CUSTOMER'S RIGHTS”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     When I was a child, salespeople were usually stationed behind a counter in any given department. […] Having searched in vain for an item and finding a salesperson to ask if the store has it, more often than not you are greeted with, "Do you see it? Then we don't have it."

   • 2016, Peter Ikeler, Hard Sell, page 179:

     Thus despite sex-typing at Macy's and Target—the placing of salespersons in like-gendered departments and women more often in interactive roles that paid less—women were not much more class-conscious than men.

Hyponyms

• counterjumper (dated, derogatory, slang)
• salesman
• saleswoman

 

Derived terms

• salespersonship
• telesalesperson

Translations

person who sells

• Albanian: shitës (sq) m
• American Sign Language: FlatO@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown-FlatO@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown Nod FlatO@InsideChesthigh-PalmForward-FlatO@Inside-PalmForward OpenB@SideChesthigh-OpenB@SideChesthigh OpenB@SideTrunkhigh-OpenB@SideTrunkhigh
• Arabic: بَيَّاع m (bayyāʕ), بَيَّاعَة f (bayyāʕa)
• Armenian: վաճառող (hy) (vačaṙoġ), գործակատար (hy) (gorcakatar)
• Azerbaijani: satıcı (az)
• Belarusian: прадаве́ц m (pradavjéc), прадаўшчы́ца f (pradaŭščýca)
• Bulgarian: продава́ч m (prodaváč), продава́чка f (prodaváčka)
• Burmese: ကုန်ရောင်းသူ (kunraung:su), အရောင်းစာရေး (a.raung:care:), ဈေးသည် (my) (jhe:sany)
• Chechen: йохкархо (joxkarxo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 售貨員 / 售货员 (zh) (shòuhuòyuán), 推銷員 / 推销员 (zh) (tuīxiāoyuán)

• Czech: prodavač (cs) m, prodavačka (cs) f
• Danish: sælger (da) c
• Dutch: verkoper (nl) m, verkoopster (nl) f
• Esperanto: vendisto, virvendisto (male), vendistiĉo (male), vendistino (female)
• Estonian: müüja
• Finnish: myyjä (fi)
• French: vendeur (fr) m, vendeuse (fr) f
• Georgian: გამყიდველი (gamq̇idveli)
• German: Verkäufer (de) m, Verkäuferin (de) f
• Greek: πωλητής (el) m (politís), πωλήτρια (el) f (polítria)
• Hebrew: מוֹכֵר (he) m (mokhér), מוֹכֶרֶת f (mokhéret)
• Hindi: विक्रेता (hi) m (vikretā)
• Hungarian: elárusító (hu), eladó (hu)
• Icelandic: sölumaður m
• Ido: vendisto (io), vendistulo (io) (male), vendistino (io) (female)
• Italian: venditore (it) m, venditrice (it) f, commesso (it) m, commessa (it) f
• Japanese: 店員 (ja) (てんいん, ten'in), 売り手 (ja) (うりて, urite), 販売者 (はんばいしゃ, hanbaisha)
• Kazakh: сатушы (satuşy)
• Khmer: អាបណក (km) (ʼaapaʼnaʼkɑɑ)
• Korean: 판매원(販賣員) (ko) (panmaewon), 점원(店員) (ko) (jeomwon)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: firoşer (ku), firoşkar (ku), firoşyar (ku)

• Kyrgyz: сатуучу (ky) (satuucu)
• Lao: ພະນັກງານຂາຍ (pha nak ngān khāi)
• Latvian: pārdevējs (lv) m, pārdevēja f
• Lithuanian: pardavėjas (lt) m, pardavėja f
• Lombard: venditor (it) m venditora f
• Macedonian: продавач m (prodavač), продавачка f (prodavačka)
• Malay: jurujual (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: худалдаачин (mn) (xudaldaačin)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: selger (no) m

  Nynorsk: seljar m

• Persian:

  Dari: فُروشِنْدَه (furōšinda)

  Iranian Persian: فُروشَنْدِه (forušande)

• Polish: sprzedawca (pl) m, sprzedawczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: vendedor (pt) m, vendedora (pt) f
• Romanian: vânzător (ro) m, vânzătoare (ro) f
• Russian: продаве́ц (ru) m (prodavéc), продавщи́ца (ru) f (prodavščíca), торго́вец (ru) m (torgóvec), торго́вка (ru) f (torgóvka) (feminine form is dispreferred)
• Scottish Gaelic: neach-reic m, reiceadair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прода̀ва̄ч m, продава̀чица f

  Roman: prodàvāč (sh) m, prodavàčica (sh) f

• Slovak: predavač m, predavačka f
• Slovene: prodajalec m, prodajalka f
• Spanish: vendedor (es) m, vendedora (es) f
• Swedish: försäljare (sv) c, försäljerska (sv) c (female)
• Tajik: фурӯшанда (tg) (furüšanda)
• Thai: พนักงานขาย (pá-nák-ngaan-kǎai)
• Turkish: satıcı (tr)
• Turkmen: satyjy
• Ukrainian: продаве́ць (uk) m (prodavécʹ), продавщи́ця f (prodavščýcja), продава́льниця f (prodaválʹnycja)
• Uyghur: ساتقۇچى (satquchi)
• Uzbek: sotuvchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: người bán hàng
• Yiddish: פֿאַרקויפֿער m (farkoyfer), פֿאַרקויפֿערין f (farkoyferin)

See also

• sales clerk
• sales representative

 

Further reading

• “salesperson”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “salesperson”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “salesperson”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “salesperson” (US) / “salesperson” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• "salesperson" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
• “salesperson”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “salesperson”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “salesperson”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries