(v. t.) The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money.
(v. t.) Opportunity of selling; demand; market.
(v. t.) Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(2) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
(3) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(4) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
(5) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
(6) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
(7) This is an edited extract from Across the Seas – Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann, published by Black Inc. Books and on-sale now .
(8) The pressure is ramping up on Asda boss Andy Clarke, who next week will reveal the chain’s sales performance for the quarter covering Christmas.
(9) Sales of oral contraceptives (OCs) remained relatively stable within each country, but women used OCs more often in Sweden and Denmark than in Finland and Norway.
(10) Wright said he had recently shown a family moving from London around a four-bedroom house with a paddock, on sale for £375,000.
(11) This study sought to determine if and why barriers to the over-the-counter purchase of syringes in the St. Louis metropolitan area might exist, given that no ordinance prohibits such a sale there.
(12) "The pattern of consumption is that among ebook readers there is a desire to pre-order, or get it quickly, so ebook sales are particularly high in the first few weeks," he said.
(13) Arena's final April issue goes on sale next Thursday, 12 March.
(14) Large price cuts seem to have taken a toll on retailer profitability, while not necessarily increasing sales substantially,” Barclaycard concluded.
(15) This comprised 1.5% through death and 17.1% through sale.
(16) China's relations with the NTC were strained last week when it emerged Chinese arms firms had talked to Muammar Gaddafi's representatives about weapons sales .
(17) They’re putting on a heavy sales job as one would expect,” Texas representative Mac Thornberry, the Republican who chairs the House armed services committee, told reporters upon leaving one of the briefings.
(18) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
(19) The PTA take 25% of sales, and most parents donate unsold stock."
(20) The first versions, without mobile connectivity, will go on sale worldwide at the end of March, priced from $499 in the US; UK prices are not yet set.
Salesman
Definition:
(n.) One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
Example Sentences:
(1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(2) The global face of Britain is now a buffoon (as many in Brussels describe him), whose word is as reliable as a used-car salesman’s.
(3) The salesman, who had no medical training, arrived each week with pizza to assure Masih that claims of addiction were exaggerated and to press him to prescribe more of the drug.
(4) But another lawsuit against Zuckerberg, by Paul Ceglia , a New York-based former wood-pellet salesman who argues that a 2003 contract with Zuckerberg gives him a claim to a large share of the company, which was started in 2004, continues.
(5) Branded cigarettes are 'badge' products, frequently on display, which therefore act as a 'silent salesman'.
(6) The best bond salesman ever would struggle to sell a billion pounds worth of gilts every day.
(7) He has taken on stints as a stable hand, been a door-to-door salesman and set up stages for local concerts: rarely does David Pena turn down a job.
(8) The story is influenced by Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
(9) His father, an insurance salesman, played the cello and his mother the piano.
(10) The Salesman wins best foreign language Oscar Read more Speaking hours before the Oscars ceremony in Hollywood, Asghar Farhadi said the movement against the US president empowered people to “say no to oppressive political powers everywhere”.
(11) My father [an insurance salesman] thought it was a wonderful movie and, indeed, was well known as the only person in his particular peer group who had understood the movie.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joko Widodo, widely expected to be Indonesia's next president, is a former furniture salesman and mayor of the central Javan city of Surakarta – and is another political anomaly.
(13) It certainly isn't the sort of deal that would have been offered or accepted had the salesman appeared on your doorstep.
(14) The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, former prime minister John Major and the archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby have also weighed in against the energy companies, which the latest polls show are less trusted than banks and car salesman.
(15) AstraZeneca's chief executive, Pascal Soriot, brought a new focus on science when he took over from David Brennan, a former salesman, 18 months ago.
(16) The gang convicted today were: Lea Rusha, 35, a former roofer of Lambersart Close, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; car salesman Stuart Royle, 49, of Allen Street, Maidstone, Kent; unemployed Jetmir Bucpapa, 26, of Hadlow Road, Tonbridge; garage owner Roger Coutts, 30, of The Green, Welling, south-east London; and Emir Hysenaj, 28, a Post Office worker, of New Road, Crowborough, East Sussex.
(17) The @USAdarFarsi account, which launched in February 2011 and seeks to engage directly with Iranians, had previously tweeted messages about The Salesman, including on 24 January when it noted its Academy Award nomination and sent best wishes to Farhadi.
(18) Vaz, who reportedly told the men his name was Jim and that he was a washing machine salesman, is also quoted discussing with the men the possibility of obtaining cocaine for the next time they met, although Vaz reportedly said he would not want to take the drug himself.
(19) Instead, his pitch was that he was a dealmaker and salesman who could use his gift of the gab and “art of the deal” to break gridlock in Washington DC.
(20) The tragedy is that Brown's many admirable qualities and instincts – his social conscience and moral compass – could have been more constructively and generously deployed in shaping Blair's instincts and salesman's skills: they showed at the G7's Africa summit in Gleneagles (2005) what they could do together.