traveling salesman

Questions about traveling salesman

What does traveling salesman mean?

traveling salesman means "a salesman who travels to call on customers".

What is another word for traveling salesman?

Close synonyms include travelling salesman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, 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 traveling salesman a common word?

traveling salesman 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.