From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcommercial travellercomˌmercial ˈtraveller noun [countable] British English old-fashioned BOSELLsomeone who travels from place to place selling goods for a company SYN sales representative
Examples from the Corpus
commercial traveller• In August Sarah was invited to a dinner dance by a commercial traveller who came to the shop.• And did you know that your dear Andrew is a commercial traveller?• One of the inn's habitués, a commercial traveller named Thomas Paufer, bore an uncanny resemblance to Johnson.• He's a commercial traveller and the wife's a cook in a Newcastle hotel.• In 1866 he married Lucy Ellen, daughter of Edward Jones, commercial traveller.• Harry Secombe was the third child of a none-too-successful commercial traveller living on a council estate near Swansea.From Longman Business Dictionarycommercial travellercomˌmercial ˈtraveller British EnglishMARKETINGJOB another name for TRAVELLING SALESMANMotels are especially convenient for commercial travellers. → traveller 