seller
/ˈsɛlə
/noun
1A person who sells something: street sellers of newspapers, flowers, etc....
- Their children will have to drop out of school and get in fight on the streets, or become street musicians or street newspaper sellers.
- Clark, who was a newspaper seller on the streets and was known as Nobby, was attacked at night and robbed of his watch and the contents of his money belt.
- But by this time shopkeepers and fellow street sellers had gathered around, so the group left.
Synonyms
vendor, retailer, purveyor, shopkeeper, supplier, stockist, trader, merchant, dealer;
salesperson, salesman, saleswoman, sales assistant, assistant, shop assistant, travelling salesperson/salesman/saleswoman, representative, sales representative, agent, negotiator, reseller, auctioneer;
North American sales clerk
informal counter-jumper, rep, knight of the road
dated saleslady, salesgirl, shop boy, shop girl, shopman, pedlar, hawker, traveller, commercial traveller
archaic chapman
2 [with adjective] A product that sells in some specified way: the book became the biggest seller in the history of royal publishing...
- Some medicines expected to be big sellers flop; some produced with only modest expectations flourish.
- The Star Wars products were the biggest sellers in company history.
- Does that mean that there can be books that are huge sellers, best-sellers, that are not on the list?
Phrases
seller's (or sellers') market