| 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 |
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 |
tilt
list
inclination lean
leaning | the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical, the tower had a pronounced tilt, the ship developed a list to starboard, he walked with a heavy inclination to the right |
list system
scrutin de liste
scrutin de liste system | based on the principle of proportional representation, voters choose between party lists, the number elected from each list being determined by the percentage cast for each list out of the total vote |
list
listing | a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) |
| A-list | a list of names of specially favored people, the boss gave me his A-list of people we should try to recruit |
class list
honours list | a list issued by examiners that categorizes students according to the class of honours they achieved in their degree examinations |
| distribution list | list of names to whom a communication should be sent |
| free list | a list of commodities that are not subject to tariffs |
| grocery list | a list of groceries to be purchased |
| grocery list shopping list | a list of heterogenous items that someone wants, the union came to the table with a whole grocery list of demands |
| hit list | a list of victims to be eliminated (as by murder) |
inventory
stock list | a detailed list of all the items in stock |
| mailing list | a list of names and addresses to which advertising material is mailed |
playlist
play list | a list of musical selections for performance or for broadcast by radio |
| price list | a listing of prices for different goods or services |
push-down list
push-down stack
stack | a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO) |
| shopping list | a list of items to be purchased |
short list
shortlist | a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen |
| sick list | a list of those who are ill (e.g. on a warship or in a regiment etc) |
| wish list | a list of events that you wish would occur |
| waiting list | a roster of those waiting to obtain something |
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 |
LISP
list-processing language | a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists |
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 |
| list price | the selling price of something as stated in a catalogue or price list, often subject to discounts, I got it at % off the list price |
sales tax
nuisance tax | a tax based on the cost of the item purchased and collected directly from the buyer |
| Civil List | a sum of money voted by British Parliament each year for the expenses of the British royal family |
| list processing | processing data that is given in the form of chained lists |
list
name | give or make a list of, name individually, give the names of, List the states west of the Mississippi |
| number list | enumerate, We must number the names of the great mathematicians |
list
heel | tilt to one side, The balloon heeled over, the wind made the vessel heel, The ship listed to starboard |
| list lean | cause to lean to the side, Erosion listed the old tree |
| list | include in a list, Am I listed in your register? |