travelling salesman

Questions about travelling salesman

What does travelling salesman mean?

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

What is another word for travelling salesman?

Close synonyms include traveling 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 travelling salesman a common word?

travelling 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.