commercial traveller

UK old-fashioned (US commercial traveler)

noun [C] COMMERCE

Definition

› a person who travels to different places trying to persuade people to buy their company's products or services: Her father was a commercial traveller, an agent for building materials.

(Definition of commercial traveller noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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