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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
Dorothea Brande

Meaning of "sales" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SALES

sales  [seɪlz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SALES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sales is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SALES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

sales

Sales

A sale is the act of selling a product or service in return for money or other compensation. Signalling completion of the prospective stage, it is the beginning of an engagement between customer and vendor or the extension of that engagement. The seller or salesperson – the provider of the goods or services – completes a sale in response to an acquisition or to an appropriation or to a request. There follows the passing of title in the item, and the application and due settlement of a price, the obligation for which arises due to the seller's requirement to pass ownership. Ideally, a seller agrees upon a price at which he willingly parts with ownership of or any claim upon the item. The purchaser, though a party to the sale, does not execute the sale, only the seller does that. To be precise the sale completes prior to the payment and gives rise to the obligation of payment. If the seller completes the first two above stages of the sale prior to settlement of the price, the sale remains valid and gives rise to an obligation to pay.

Definition of sales in the English dictionary

The first definition of sales in the dictionary is the number of goods, products, or services that a company sells within a certain time period. Other definition of sales is the profession of trying to sell on behalf of a company. Sales is also the department of a company that is responsible for selling.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SALES


after-sales
ˈɑːftəˌseɪlz
baby-scales
ˈbeɪbɪˌskeɪlz
Dales
deɪlz
entrails
ˈɛntreɪlz
Giles
dʒaɪlz
hills
hɪlz
ills
ɪlz
marseilles
mɑːˈseɪlz
Mills
mɪlz
piles
paɪlz
pills
pɪlz
Scales
skeɪlz
Sills
sɪlz
Smiles
smaɪlz
spoils
spɔɪlz
tails
teɪlz
telesales
ˈtɛlɪˌseɪlz
textiles
ˈtɛkstaɪlz
Wales
weɪlz
Wills
wɪlz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SALES

saleroom
sales analysis
sales assistant
sales call
sales campaign
sales clerk
sales conference
sales department
sales director
sales drive
sales executive
sales figures
sales force
sales forecast
sales leaflet
sales literature
sales manager
sales meeting
sales office
sales pitch

WORDS THAT END LIKE SALES

bathroom scales
credit sales
direct sales
femmes fatales
home sales
January sales
kitchen scales
Manizales
New South Wales
platform scales
Prince of Wales
South Wales
tales
tell tales
Thales
the Dales
the Scales
tip the scales
weighing scales
Yorkshire Dales

Synonyms and antonyms of sales in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SALES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sales» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of sales

Translation of «sales» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SALES

Find out the translation of sales to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sales from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sales» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

销售
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ventas
570 millions of speakers

English

sales
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बिक्री
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مبيعات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

продаж
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vendas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিক্রয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ventes
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

jualan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vertrieb
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

販売の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

판매
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sales
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bán hàng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விற்பனை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विक्री
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

satış
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vendite
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sprzedaży
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

продажів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vânzări
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πωλήσεις
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verkope
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

omsättning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

salg
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sales

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SALES»

The term «sales» is very widely used and occupies the 1.127 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SALES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sales

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10 QUOTES WITH «SALES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sales.
1
Laurie Halse Anderson
This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!
2
Tim Armstrong
A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty driven by hard work and love working with teams. What people discount is, I grew up in a very small blue-collar town in Massachusetts and have basically scrapped my way career wise.
3
Mary Kay Ash
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
4
Jean M. Auel
Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.
5
Craig Benson
The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.
6
Nate Berkus
Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
7
Dorothea Brande
So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
8
Jack Bruce
Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
9
Tom Cochrane
I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.
10
Olivia Cooke
My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SALES»

Discover the use of sales in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sales and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Achieve Sales Excellence: The 7 Customer Rules for Becoming ...
Achieve Sales Excellence examines the new paradigm of business-to-business sales, and outlines the seven practices sales professionals and organisations must embrace to have a world class sales force.
Howard Stevens, Theodore Kinni, 2006
2
Channel sales and management in distribution
All these questions are answered with informative advice on how to succeed and progress in a distribution market business.This book offers a professional approach in how to create a long term career in the channel business no matter if the ...
Robert Hastings, 2011
3
Sales and Distribution Management
Though there are a number of books on Sales and Distribution Management by Indian authors as well, these books do not present the Indian conditions in the right perspective.
S.L. Gupta, 2009
4
The Best Damn Sales Book Ever: 16 Rock-Solid Rules for ...
This book is a must-read for those new to sales and those veteran salespeople who want to take their skills to the next level.
Warren Greshes, 2011
5
Sales Promotion: How to Create, Implement and Integrate ...
Sales Promotion is a core text of the ISP diploma, and the author has utilized graduate feedback to make the fourth edition relevant to students, whilst preserving its status as a potent tool for sales and marketing professionals.
Roddy Mullin, 2010
6
Data Mining Techniques: For Marketing, Sales, and Customer ...
This third edition of Data Mining Techniques covers such topics as: How to create stable, long-lasting predictive models Data preparation and variable selection Modeling specific targets with directed techniques such as regression, decision ...
Gordon S. Linoff, Michael J. A. Berry, 2011
7
Mastering Technical Sales: The Sales Engineer's Handbook
The book also addresses key career management and team-building topics, and includes detailed case studies, concise chapter summaries, and handy checklists of skill-building tips that reinforce all the career-boosting skills and techniques ...
John Care (B.Sc.), Aron Bohlig, 2008
8
Sales Management: Analysis and Decision Making
Updates for this edition include: --New Opening Vignettes provide recent examples of leading sales organizations. --New Sales Management in the 21st Century boxes include new sales executives and personal comments.
Thomas N. Ingram, Raymond W. LaForge, Ramon A. Avila, 2012
9
12.5 principios sobre la grandeza de las ventas: cómo ...
A new guide from the author of The Sales Bible helps salespeople learn why sales happen, and how it has everything to do with understanding buying motives and taking ethical actions, allowing the readers to make sales for the moment and for ...
Jeffrey H. Gitomer, 2004
10
Vault Career Guide to Sales & Trading
This Vault guide shows you how to break into sales & trading, with an inside look at career paths, the real deal on interview questions and the scoop on the financial products and lingo you need to know. Book jacket.
Gabriel Kim, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SALES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sales is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Apple Watch Sales Estimates Remain Low
Earlier U.S. sales estimates for the Watch, based on market research firm Slice Intelligence extrapolating e-receipt data, suggested nearly 1 million Americans ... «TechCrunch, Jul 15»
2
Despite complaints, Amazon sales soar 93% on Prime Day
Sales in the United States rocketed up 93% for Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) Wednesday, according to online retail tracker ChannelAdvisor. European sales grew ... «CNNMoney, Jul 15»
3
Walmart launches rival sale to Amazon's Prime Day
The Walmart vs. Amazon fight for retail domination just escalated. Not one to let Amazon steal the sales spotlight, Walmart will launch a rival sale Wednesday to ... «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
4
Samsung forecasts profit fall as S6 sales disappoint
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. forecast a fall in second quarter profit in a sign that sales of its much anticipated Galaxy S6 smartphones ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
5
Chrysler tops Ford, Toyota as GM slips 3% in June
Automakers released U.S. June sales figures on Wednesday, and it was Nissan leading the way with a more than 13 percent increase in sales over last year as ... «CNBC, Jul 15»
6
Wal-Mart's Quarter Shows Uneven Progress
The world's largest retailer reported a slim increase in U.S. sales and a drop in profit. That put it in the company of department stores and other retailers whose ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
7
Market Closes Mostly Flat After Weak Retail Sales Report
In addition to corporate deals and earnings news, traders watched the Commerce Department's latest monthly snapshot of retail sales. The report, a bellwether ... «New York Times, May 15»
8
Strong iPhone Sales Will Power Apple's Encore
Nonetheless, analysts expect strong sales of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus to underpin another strong quarter. The iPhone is the company's flagship ... «Wall Street Journal, Apr 15»
9
McDonald's sales bleed continues despite turnaround efforts
McDonald's MCD -1.02% reported a more severe sales decline than expected in the first three months of the year Wednesday, with business dropping off from ... «Fortune, Apr 15»
10
Apple shines with record earnings on huge iPhone sales
What you need to know: Wall Street was expecting huge numbers from the quarter, which included the holidays and the first full quarter of sales for the iPhone 6 ... «Fortune, Jan 15»

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