Definition of Traveling salesman

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Traveling Salesman

traveler
traveler's check
traveler's diarrhea
traveler's diarrhoea
traveler's joy
traveler's letter of credit
traveler's tree
travelers
travelers' checks
travelest
traveleth
traveling
traveling bag
traveling expenses
traveling grate
traveling salesman (current term)
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

Literary usage of Traveling salesman

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

1. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, William Horace Hotchkiss, Frank Bixby Gilbert, Fred Eugene Rosbrook (1921)
"A traveling salesman may be paid a fixed sum per day, week or month, or a yearly salary, or a commission on the amount of goods sold, or both a fixed sum in ..."

2. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"A traveling salesman may be paid a fixed sum per day, week or month, or a yearly salary, or a commission on the amount of goods sold, or both a fixed sum in ..."

3. A Guide to the Study of Occupations: A Selected Critical Bibliography of the by Frederick James Allen (1921)
"traveling salesman ALLEN. Business Employments, 58-67, ... Exporting to Latin America, chap, vi, the traveling salesman in Latin America. FOWLER. ..."

4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"cens« from any traveling salesman. LB Price Co. v. City of Atlanta, 31 SH 619, ... traveling salesman ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Agency: Including Special Classes of Agents by William Lawrence Clark, Henry Heckerman Skyles (1905)
"A traveling salesman usually has not possession of the goods which he is employed ... It is a genera] rule, then, that where a traveling salesman solicits ..."

6. Business Employments by Frederick James Allen (1916)
"In general the traveling salesman, because of the reasons above stated, ... The Rise of the Modern traveling salesman : I have made a research into every ..."

7. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1906)
"The traveling salesman's time is limited, as his route has been mapped out in ... It would relieve the traveling salesman of a world of trouble if dealers ..."

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