traveling salesman
noun
1.
a male representative of a business firm who travels in an assigned territory soliciting orders for a company's products or services.
Origin
1875-80,
Americanism
Examples from the web for
traveling salesman
He was a
traveling salesman
, he always had a new invention.
Too often, headache therapy has been as scientific as a
traveling salesman
's all-purpose tonic.
Maybe a good
traveling salesman
might have livened things up a bit.
With one vehicle, this is the
traveling salesman
problem.