commercial traveller

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   a salesman who travels to call on customers

   Synonymstraveling salesmantravelling salesmancommercial travelerroadmanbagman

   Broadersalesmanspokesperson

   Narrowertallyman

Questions about commercial traveller

What does commercial traveller mean?

commercial traveller means "a salesman who travels to call on customers".

What is another word for commercial traveller?

Close synonyms include traveling salesman, travelling salesman, commercial traveler, roadman, bagman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is commercial traveller a common word?

commercial traveller is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.