detailman

English

Etymology

detail +‎ -man

Noun

detailman (plural detailmen)

  1. A sales representative for a pharmaceutical company.
    • 1952 October 13, Richard L. Williams, “‘To sleep: perchance…’”, in Life, volume 33, number 15, page 110:
      Nearly every pharmaceutical house has its own brands, sold in tablets, solutions or brightly-colored capsules, on which its “detail men” keep doctors informed. Probably the most popular successors to Veronal are Seconal (“red birds” to the bootleg trade) and Nembutal (“yellow jackets”).
    • 1989, P. Reed Maurer, Competing in Japan (page 34)
      It is remarkable that any physician has time to see detailmen (pharmaceutical company sales representatives).
    • 2011, Jessica Leavitt, Fred Leavitt, Improving Medical Outcomes
      About one hundred thousand of them in the United States visit doctors' offices with drug samples, dinner invitations, tickets to ball games, and various other gifts. Drug companies spend about $5 billion annually on detailmen and their gifts.

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