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Noun: traveling salesman
Usage: US (elsewhere: travelling salesman)
  1. A salesman who travels to call on customers
    "The traveling salesman visited several cities to sell his company's products";
    - travelling salesman [Brit, Cdn], commercial traveler [US], commercial traveller [Brit, Cdn], roadman, bagman [Brit, archaic], drummer [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: traveling salesmen

Type of: interpreter, representative, salesman, spokesperson, voice

Encyclopedia: Traveling salesman