travelling salesman
1travelling salesman — ➔ salesman * * * travelling salesman UK US US traveling salesman) noun [C] COMMERCE ► someone whose job is to travel to different places, trying to persuade people to buy their company s goods, taking orders, etc: »He made his money as a… …
2travelling salesman — travelling salesmen N COUNT A travelling salesman is a salesman who travels to different places and meets people in order to sell goods or take orders. (in AM, use traveling salesman) …
3travelling salesman — BrE traveling salesman AmE n someone who goes from place to place selling their company s products …
4travelling salesman — ► NOUN ▪ a representative of a firm who visits businesses to show samples and gain orders …
5travelling salesman — noun a salesman who travels to call on customers • Syn: ↑traveling salesman, ↑commercial traveler, ↑commercial traveller, ↑roadman, ↑bagman • Hypernyms: ↑salesman, ↑spokesperson, ↑ …
6travelling salesman — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms travelling salesman : singular travelling salesman plural travelling salesmen someone whose job is to travel to different places to sell goods from a particular company …
7Travelling Salesman Problem — [ trævəlɪȖ seɪlzmən prɔbləm, englisch], Problem des Handelsreisenden, Rundfahrtproblem, Operations Research: kombinatorisches Optimierungsproblem, bei dem durch eine vorgegebene Menge von Orten von einem bestimmten Ausgangsort aus der kürzeste… …
8Travelling salesman problem — The travelling salesman problem (TSP) is an NP hard problem in combinatorial optimization studied in operations research and theoretical computer science. Given a list of cities and their pairwise distances, the task is to find a shortest… …
9Travelling salesman (disambiguation) — A travelling salesman is a travelling vendor of goods.Travelling salesman may also refer to:* Traveling Saleseman (film), a 1921 comedy film * Traveling Salesmen ( The Office episode), the twelfth episode of the third season of the US version of… …
10travelling salesman — /ˌtræv(ə)lɪŋ seɪlzmən/ noun a salesman who travels around an area visiting customers on behalf of his company ● Travelling salesmen must make regular contact with company headquarters by phone …
