telesalesman

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English

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Etymology

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tele- +‎ sales +‎ -man

Noun

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telesalesman (plural telesalesmen)

  1. Synonym of telemarketer
    • 2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 248:
      Simon Dean was a telesalesman for a life-assurance company, or that's what he probably still thought he was, though one of his last acts before leaving work, according to the rigorously backed-up e-mail system his company maintained, had been to send a resignation note to his boss, accompanied by a detailed account of Simon's intentions regarding the boss's teenage daughter.
    • 2016, David W Stewart, Healthy, Wealthy or Wise?: Issues in American Health Care Policy:
      If extroversion drugs lead every stranger, every telesalesman to address me by my first name (too many do already) and intrude a feigned intimacy, give me Grant Wood!
    • 2022, Christopher Beach, Rubik's Cube: Solve the Puzzle, save the World.:
      'Eeerrr... sorry wrong number,' came the confused reply from the telesalesman.