telesalesman
English
Etymology
tele- + sales + -man
Noun
telesalesman (plural telesalesmen)
- 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.
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