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SALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time
Synonyms:
gross revenue; gross sales; sales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("sales" is a kind of...):
income (the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time)
Context examples:
Twelve of the 14 restaurants that provided voluntary menu labelling were in the top 50 restaurants by sales – larger chains may come under more scrutiny from governments, the media, campaign groups and the public to provide both menu labelling and healthier options.
(Menu labelling linked to less fat and salt in food, University of Cambridge)
The spotted owl gained national prominence in the United States during the 1990s, when environmentalists' efforts to preserve its habitat resulted in federal measures forbidding logging on large swaths of land, as well as federal limits on the sales of harvested wood.
(Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all, Wikinews)
The top-of-the-line Note 7 was crucial to Samsung's growth plans this year, with the company struggling to boost sales, squeezed by Apple in the high-end sector and Chinese rivals in the low-end.
(Samsung Ends Production of Problem-Plagued Galaxy Note 7, Voanews)
If you work in sales, your commission structure might change—now or in the coming years.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I daresay they might get a peep at that sales book if they wanted to.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Overdue" was rushed upon the market by the Meredith-Lowell Company in the height of his popularity, and being fiction, in point of sales it made even a bigger strike than "The Shame of the Sun."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A number of major cellphone companies, including U.S-based AT&T and German rival T-Mobile, unilaterally announced a halt to sales and exchanges of the Galaxy Note 7 on Sunday.
(Samsung Ends Production of Problem-Plagued Galaxy Note 7, Voanews)
This suggests you may get a new assignment or, if you work in sales, bring in a lucrative client.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
From now on, if you work in sales, your best clients will be found outside your base city, requiring a short drive.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
If your book is coming out on this date, you’ll have hit the jackpot—you will likely generate impressive sales.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
