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/ˈseɪlzˌpɜːrsən/ · /ˈseɪlzˌpɜːsən/
someone whose job is to sell things in a shop or for a company.
業務員
複數 salespeoplesalespersons
核心畫面
Picture whoever is on the selling side of the counter — in a shop or out visiting customers — with no hint of whether that person is a man or a woman. That neutrality is the whole point of the word.
可以想成櫃檯「賣的那一邊」站著的人：在店裡，或是跑出去拜訪客戶都算，而句子完全不透露這個人是男是女。sales（銷售…更多收起
可以想成櫃檯「賣的那一邊」站著的人：在店裡，或是跑出去拜訪客戶都算，而句子完全不透露這個人是男是女。sales（銷售）＋person（人），這個 person 就是重點——它是為了不指定性別而造出來的字。原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
salespersonnoun
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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."
- Thus despite sex-typing at Macy's and Target—the placing of salespersons in like-gendered departments and women more often in interactive roles that paid less—women were not much more class-conscious than men.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。