rep : Idioms & Phrases

Rep"-sil`ver noun

Etymology

See Reap.

Definitions

1. Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.

Webster 1913

• noun a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited)
  sales representative; salesperson.
  

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