noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an insurance salesman
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He offered me a post as a life insurance salesman.
travelling salesman
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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The better a salesman you are the more likely you are to succeed.
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A good salesman , he said, can guide a man toward a nice gift package.
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Stan had discovered that he was a good insurance salesman .
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Even a good salesman in a small business-you take him away, and you can destroy the business.
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Alexander was a salesman , but like all the very best salesmen, he had the instincts of a trader.
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A good salesman could transform a shy, nervous thrift president into a maniacal gambler.
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She lost her best ad salesman when her brother got too busy with his job and couldn't help out anymore.
travelling
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The only real hospital case was a travelling salesman who had been shot through the foot.
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I am slowly becoming a travelling salesman called Pete.
young
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In its short life, Stox was staffed by very young salesmen , sometimes teenagers.
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Not surprisingly, young salesmen dashed around the place looking cowed and frightened, while young traders smoked cigars.
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A keen young salesman was dogging their footsteps.
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The young salesman had reminded Renie of himself at that age.
■ NOUN
bond
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I was shipped to London to become a bond salesman .
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Most bond salesmen use the language of investment, analyzing the company and its prospects.
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I found imagining myself as a bond salesman only marginally more plausible than imagining myself as a bond trader.
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The rat with no exercise wound up as a bond salesman .
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When we met, he was returning to New York, to be a bond salesman on the forty-first floor.
car
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Now its humiliation has been deepened by, of all people, a second-hand car salesman .
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There are lawyers and car salesmen , and then there are people who make an honest living.
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That's the motto of car salesmen who have put up a gag board to amuse motorists.
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Read in studio A car salesman is recovering after being held up at gunpoint by a man posing as a customer.
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Why, Brecht, the car salesman !
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Joe is the arms trade's equivalent of a used car salesman .
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Before Lawless made his approach, Ian was a warehouse manager in Durham, while Stephen was a car salesman .
computer
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He could have been a computer salesman .
insurance
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I've been a life insurance salesman and I was in the deep freeze business for ages.
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But I get a big thrill out of seeing players go on to become doctors and lawyers and insurance salesmen .
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Jennifer and insurance salesman Dennis Crawford split up when the model was a teenager.
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Several dozen insurance salesmen went pale.
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Stan had discovered that he was a good insurance salesman .
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They could have been greengrocers, insurance salesmen , buggy repairmen, schoolteachers, congressmen or even preachers as much as criminals.
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You were an insurance salesman once, why can't you go back to that?
oil
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Perhaps, when the shouting from snake oil salesmen subsides, our leaders will find a way to forge a bipartisan solution.
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For all his odd and scary views, Buchanan has played the fear card like a snake oil salesman hawking eternal life.
■ VERB
employ
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Many companies employ both IFAs and salesmen .
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This gives him an antidote to the high pressure selling techniques sometimes employed by door-to-door salesmen .
traveling
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His father, Lucien, was a traveling whiskey salesman and proprietor of a billiard parlor.
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Oluf was a skilled baker who had graduated to traveling salesman .
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All traveling Salomon salesmen stayed at the Bristol.
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He began his career as a traveling salesman for a hardware company.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be wearing your teacher's/salesman's etc hat
snake oil salesman/peddler
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For all his odd and scary views, Buchanan has played the fear card like a snake oil salesman hawking eternal life.
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Perhaps, when the shouting from snake oil salesmen subsides, our leaders will find a way to forge a bipartisan solution.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies.
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Dash did what most salesmen did, only better.
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Isn't it nice to see a couple turning the tables on a double-glazing salesman ?
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It covered subjects which included selling skills, overcoming customers' objections and motivating retail salesmen.
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Over three months leading salesmen, traders, and financiers shared their experiences with the class.
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Ranieri cast himself in an odd role for a Wall Street salesman .
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That's about 30 to 40 times faster than phone modems, according to Midcontinent salesman Eric Waldhaus.
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We're all salesmen then, armed with brochures, videos and amusing anecdotes.