salesperson

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise to customers in a store or to customers who are visited

   You have been a salesperson for as long as I can remember.

2. 2
   noun

   A person whose job is to sell things, often in a shop or store.

   When I was a child, salespeople were usually stationed behind a counter in any given department. […] Having searched in vain for an item and finding a salesperson to ask if the store has it, more often than not you are greeted with, "Do you see it? Then we don't have it."

Etymology

Compound of sales + person.