Word Meanings - SALESWOMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

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• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• OCCUPATION
  1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• MERCHANDISER
  A trader. Bunyan.
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• GOODSHIP
  Favor; grace. Gower.
• GOODS
  See 3
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• MERCHANDISE
  1. The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities. Spenser. 2. The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• WOMANHOOD
  1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2.
• WOMANIZE
  To make like a woman; to make effeminate. V. Knox.
• WOMANLIKE
  Like a woman; womanly. Womanlike, taking revenge too deep. Tennyson.
• WOMANLESS
  Without a woman or women.
• WOMAN
  1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. Daniel. 2. To make effeminate or womanish. Shak. 3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. "To have him see me woman'd." Shak.
• WOMANKIND
  The females of the human race; women, collectively. A sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access. Hawthorne.
• WOMANLINESS
  The quality or state of being womanly. There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence. Udall.
• WOMANISH
  Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense. See the Note under Effeminate. " Thy tears are womanish." Shak. " Womanish entreaties." Macaulay. A voice not soft,
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• BONDSWOMAN
  See BONDWOMAN
• DRY GOODS
  A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• DAIRYWOMAN
  A woman who attends to a dairy.
• GENTLEWOMAN
  1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
• HERDSWOMAN
  A woman who tends a herd. Sir W. Scott.
• SALESWOMAN
  A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
• STATESWOMAN
  A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
• CHARWOMAN
  A woman hired for odd work or for single days.
• TIRE-WOMAN
  1. A lady's maid. Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making. Locke. 2. A dresser in a theater. Simmonds.