rep:
(short form for ‘representative’ & ‘sales representative’; also ‘sales rep‘; plural: ‘reps‘; for the right pronunciation, please click here)
a sales person (a sales representative) representing a particular company, who approaches his/her company’s potential customers/clients and make them buy his/her company’s products,
a smart sales rep
Being a science graduate, Andy got a job as a medical rep in an international pharmaceutical company.
Sales reps with neat looks, good manners and excellent communication skills can make very good money as the companies they work for give them perks and incentives to encourage them.
Reps of all most kinds need to travel a lot, wait patiently for the appointments, answer all the silly questions their potential customers ask them and finally meet targets imposed on them by their employers!
Note 2: ‘Rep'(short for repition), usually used in plural, is more commonly used in weight-training (body-building), to refer to ‘a complete motion of an exercise movement. For an article that explains what a ‘rep’ is, please click here.
