You can insert the Definition List wherever you want to in your document.
Saleswoman. Previously the office receptionist.
Office manager. Notice that even though I have written this entry first and I have referenced it first, it will not be first in the list of entries because the list gets sorted by the definienda.
Saleswoman. Feisty. This entry is not referenced from the main document body.
For contrast, regular explicit links to local, relative URLs, both Labelled and unlabeled.txt.
Main body text paragraph here, with the Scott, Michael auto-labelled link, and a second explicitly labelled link. And to show that multiple references to a shared entry work, here's a second link to the Scott entry.