| sales campaign | an advertising campaign intended to promote sales |
sale cutate sale
sales event | an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices, they held a sale to reduce their inventory, I got some great bargains at their annual sale |
| sales resistance | resistance by potential customers to aggressive selling practices |
book
volume | physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together, he used a large book as a doorstop |
mercantile establishment
retail store
sales outlet
outlet | a place of business for retailing goods |
| stall stand sales booth | a booth where articles are displayed for sale |
thermobaric bomb
fuel-air bomb
vacuum bomb
volume-detonation bomb
aerosol bomb | a bomb that uses a fuel-air explosive, a thermobaric bomb can create overpressures equal to an atomic bomb |
volume loudness
intensity | the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction), the kids played their music at full volume |
bulk
mass volume | the property of something that is great in magnitude, it is cheaper to buy it in bulk, he received a mass of correspondence, the volume of exports |
dollar volume
turnover | the volume measured in dollars, the store's dollar volume continues to rise |
| volume | a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications, the third volume was missing, he asked for the volume of the Annual Review |
sale
sales agreement | an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer), the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office |
decimal point
percentage point
point | the dot at the left of a decimal fraction |
percent sign
percentage sign | a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by |
sales talk
sales pitch
pitch | promotion by means of an argument and demonstration |
| sales promotion | promotion that supplements or coordinates advertising |
sales department
sales division
sales force | the division of a business that is responsible for selling products or services |
| sales staff | those in a business who are responsible for sales |
| sales finance company | a finance company that buys (at a discount) the installment sales contracts of retail merchants |
| demonstrator sales demonstrator | someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer |
salesperson
sales representative
sales rep | a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited) |
gross sales
gross revenue
sales | income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time |
| net sales | gross sales reduced by customer discounts, returns, freight out, and allowances |
| sales incentive | remuneration offered to a salesperson for exceeding some predetermined sales goal |
share
portion
part
percentage | assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group, he wanted his share in cash |
sales tax
nuisance tax | a tax based on the cost of the item purchased and collected directly from the buyer |
volume unit
capacity unit
capacity measure
cubage unit
cubic measure
cubic content unit
displacement unit
cubature unit | a unit of measurement of volume or capacity |
| volume | the amount of -dimensional space occupied by an object, the gas expanded to twice its original volume |
| volume | a relative amount, mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water |
percentage
percent
per centum
pct | a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred) |
hematocrit
haematocrit
packed cell volume | the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit |