Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
commercial traveller
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And did you know that your dear Andrew is a commercial traveller?
▪ Harry Secombe was the third child of a none-too-successful commercial traveller living on a council estate near Swansea.
▪ He's a commercial traveller and the wife's a cook in a Newcastle hotel.
▪ In 1866 he married Lucy Ellen, daughter of Edward Jones, commercial traveller.
▪ In August Sarah was invited to a dinner dance by a commercial traveller who came to the shop.
▪ One of the inn's habitués, a commercial traveller named Thomas Paufer, bore an uncanny resemblance to Johnson.
Wiktionary
commercial traveller
n. (context British dated English) travelling salesman.
WordNet
commercial traveller
n. a salesman who travels to call on customers [syn: traveling salesman, travelling salesman, commercial traveler, roadman, bagman]