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salesmaster en · NOUN

Etymology

From sales + master.

Meanings

1. (Ireland, historical) One who sells goods on behalf of the owner.
   • His second wife was Maria Byme,4 one of the daughters of Joseph Byme, also a salesmaster of Smithfield, Dublin. 2004, Kaye Cole, The Germaines: A Huguenot Family from the Irish Midlands, page 13:
   • The practice of country gentlemen dealing through salesmasters is always to treat them just in the same manner as bankers, the salesmaster keeping a running debit and credit account, and paying over sums from time to time as his employer calls for them. 1847, Irish Equity Reports Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, page 399:

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