Definition of Travelling salesman

1. Noun. A salesman who travels to call on customers.


Definition of Travelling salesman

1. Noun. A man who travels, often within a certain territory, soliciting orders or selling goods. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Travelling Salesman

traveling wave
travelings
travell
travellable
travelled
traveller
traveller's check
traveller's cheque
traveller's joy
traveller's letter of credit
traveller's tree
travellers
travellest
travelleth
travelling
travelling salesman (current term)
travelling salesman problem
travelling salesmen
travelling wave
travelling wave tube
travellour
travells
travelog
travelogs
travelogue
traveloguelike
travelogues
travelour
travels
traveltime

Literary usage of Travelling salesman

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Agency: Including Not Only a Discussion of the by Floyd Russell Mechem (1889)
"Agent to sell merely or to solicit Orders without Possession of Goods not authorized to receive Payment 840. When travelling Salesman may receive Payment. ..."

2. The Building of a Book: A Series of Practical Articles by Frederick Hills Hitchcock (1906)
"... THE travelling salesman BY HARRY A. THOMPSON THE increase in the visible supply of authors more than meets the demand. A manuscript once accepted, ..."

3. History of Stoneham, Massachusetts by William Burnham Stevens, Francis Lester Whittier (1891)
"the employ of the American Lasting Machine Co. in 1867, and was travelling salesman for this company for about a year, when he concluded to give up all ..."

4. Workers of the Nation: An Encyclopedia of the Occupations of the American by Gilson Willets (1903)
"The travelling salesman is a marked man. ... One of the most important requisites for success as a travelling salesman is tact. ..."

5. Incidents and Reflections Containing Illustrations of Christian Truths by Joseph Walton (1888)
"Danger of Delays. Hannah Gibbons. Joseph Hoag. The travelling salesman. ... travelling salesman ..."

6. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts (1900)
"The contract was not to employ the plaintiff as travelling salesman for the New England trade; it was to employ the plaintiff "as a travelling salesman," ..."

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