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traveling salesman

–noun
a male representative of a business firm who travels in an assigned territory soliciting orders for a company's products or services.

Origin:
1875–80, Americanism
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trav·el·ing salesman   (trāv'ə-lĭng, trāv'lĭng)
n.  A man who travels in a given territory to solicit business orders or sell merchandise.
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