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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
saleswoman
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Caroline had not hired on as a saleswoman, and she'd certainly not hired on to be sociable.
▪ But the real head-case is Carolyn, a failing real-estate saleswoman.
▪ Dyroen-Lancer has made money as an Avon saleswoman.
▪ Jacking out, the saleswoman slid her finger into a socket behind the counter.
▪ None of the other five saleswomen was available for comment.
▪ On a street corner in the bustling city centre Petrona Sanchez, a lottery saleswoman, is equally bewildered.
▪ She had been a saleswoman and loved it.
▪ Some newly minted salesmen and saleswomen have been laid off from other jobs.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saleswoman

Saleswoman \Sales"wom`an\, n.; pl. Saleswomen. A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
saleswoman

1704, from genitive of sale + woman.

Wiktionary
saleswoman

n. A woman whose occupation it is to sell things.

WordNet
saleswoman

n. a woman salesperson [syn: salesgirl, saleslady]

Usage examples of "saleswoman".

The saleswoman took a step backward, almost falling in her tight skirt.

Silence glanced curiously toward the saleswoman, and saw her fumble again with something beneath the counter.

He looked away then, still frowning, and said something to the saleswoman, who shrugged.

Then the saleswoman had taken their cards and put each one through the reader.

The boy nodded, and the saleswoman swept the bundle under the counter.

The saleswoman had returned to the other end of the counter, her hands poised over something just under the counter top.

While she spoke, the saleswoman meekly asked if I would like to try again with another Bic.

Finally, and unfairly he supposed now, he had taken out his frustration by blowing his stack at the damned drug company saleswoman who had come into his office late in the afternoon.

It was the same drug company saleswoman who had been in his office yesterday.

The saleswoman pushed back several 20 strands of wet hair which had fallen forward on her face.

She opened a refrigerator and added a clear glass drug container which the Felding-Roth saleswoman had brought.

For the first time since Jackie had met the saleswoman, Lola wore casual clothes.

All that I could find, after weeks of coming and going in Paris, was a post as a saleswoman at the Magasins du Louvre.

It was in the mirror, to begin with, that I saw a man in a camel-hair coat to whom, straight away, the saleswoman gave a wink.

Simone now smiled at the lingerie saleswoman with all the goodwill she could muster.