† salen.1
Obsolete.
a. A hall or spacious chamber; a king's or noble's lodging, palace, castle; occasionally a tent.In Middle English alliterative poetry in sale is a frequent tag.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > dwelling of king or ruler > [noun]
hall971
fleta1000
saleOE
courta1175
palacec1300
praetoryc1384
praetorium1536
serail1585
seraglio1589
serai1617
sirkar1619
alcazar1623
alkedavy1631
palaisc1660
Residenz1824
istana1839
arch-house1876
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > tent > [noun]
telda900
field houseOE
saleOE
pavilionc1225
comelc1275
pallionc1300
tentoura1325
tentc1325
holetc1380
hileta1382
tabernacle1382
cabin?a1400
hale?a1400
tentory1412
logis1477
booth1535
ordu1673
toldo1839
OE Beowulf 2075 Gæst yrre cwom, eatol æfengrom user neosan, ðær we gesunde sæl weardodon.
OE Riddle 52 2 Ic seah ræpingas in ræced fergan under hrof sales hearde twegen.
a1300 K. Horn 1187 (Cambr.) Wyn for to schenche, After mete in sale.
c1330 Amis & Amil. 444 And worthliest in ich a wede, And semliest in sale.
a1400–50 Alexander 502 Þe king was sett in his sale with septer in hand.
a1400–50 Alexander 4016 Þan sett he sales vp of silke & sacrifece makis.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xvii. xvi. 713 Ryghte soo as they sat at her dyner in the chyef sale.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 10 Kele hit with a litelle ale, And set hit downe to serve in sale.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. dv The seymly souerane of ye sail.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. iv. 45 Thair stud ane gret tempill, or saill riall.
1522 Worlde & Chylde (de Worde) (1909) sig. A.iv My selfe semely in sale I sende with you to be.
b. figurative.
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14.. in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 158 A mey hym harbered yn hur hall, Scho socourd hym sotht[l]y yn hur sale.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
salen.2
/seɪl/, U.S. /seɪl/ 1.
a. The action or an act of selling or making over to another for a price; the exchange of a commodity for money or other valuable consideration. Also, with qualification: (Ready, slow, etc.) disposal of goods for money; opportunity of selling.bill of sale: see bill of sale n. at bill n.3 Compounds 1. bargain and sale (Law): see bargain n.1 6.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun]
salec1050
sellinga1325
merchandisinga1425
utterance1436
venting1532
vendition1542
vent1548
assale1566
ventage1577
vent1583
vending1666
distribution1793
flogging1919
turnaround1936
society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > opportunity of
vent1548
sale1553
vend1618
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 180 Distractio, ceap. Uenditio, sala.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19239 ‘Sai me’, he said, ‘ananias, Qui has þou tempted sathanas, To mak sli lesing o þi sale?’
c1400 Rule St. Benet (Prose) 37 Better chepe sal ye selle þan þe men of þe werld dose, þat god may be payde of yure sale.
1411 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 19 Þ' forseyd sale of my londes and tenementes.
a1450 J. Myrc Festial 79 When he [sc. Iudas Skaryot] segh þat Crist was demed to þe deth by hys sale.
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Fvjv In the cytie of Panchi, there is great sale of silke.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 245 Thow sall haue for thy Fewaill, For my sake, the better saill.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. xlii. 97 He was told what ill sales he shoulde finde there of such Merchaundize as he had brought.
1611 Bible (King James) Lev. xxv. 50 The price of his sale shalbe according vnto the number of yeeres. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) i. iii. 138 Thy sale of Offices and Townes in France. View more context for this quotation
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected To Rdr. sig. A4v Permit it..to hang in View at..some such eminent Place of Sale.
1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. vi. 7 They are of sure Sale from our Ware-house at Redriff among the Seamen.
1786 Chamb. Cycl. I. Pref. 4 The extensive sail of this edition.
1836 W. Irving Astoria III. 231 The terms of sale were lowered by him to the standard fixed by Mr. Stuart.
1837 Channing Addr. Temperance 32 After these remarks, it will follow, that we should discourage the sale of ardent spirits.
b. spec. A putting up of goods to be sold publicly; a public auction. See also port-sale n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun]
outsale1349
out-vent1542
auction1673
sale1680
1680 W. Temple Ess. Advancem. Trade Ireland in Miscellanea 136 Both those that won the Plate, and those which are thus sold, ought immediately to be marked so as they may never return a second time, either to the Race or to the Sale.
1700 Act 11 & 12 Will. III in London Gaz. No. 6129/1 All such Goods..shall be sold at publick Sale by the Candle.
1719 Free-thinker No. 108. 1 On Thursday next..will begin another Publick Sale by Inch of Candle.
1753 News, Boys, News! 11 Apr. On Saturday, the 14th Instant,..will be held at the Town-Hall in this City, a Sale of great Part of the Goods..belonging to the..Old Interest of this County.
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. lxiii. 205 He should pull down the bills advertising the sale of his effects.
1888 A. S. Swan Doris Cheyne viii. 128 An auction sale..for behoof of the creditors of Robert Cheyne.
c. A special disposal of shop goods at rates lower than those usually charged in order to get rid of them rapidly, e.g. at the end of a ‘season’.
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society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > disposal of goods at reduced price
riddance?1542
summer sale1840
drive1866
sale1866
clearance sale1880
bargain-sale1898
riot1968
1866 Chambers's Jrnl. 30 June 402/2 (advt.) Enormous and incredible sale.., for ten days only!!!
1875 L. Troubridge Jrnl. in Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 124 We..found a vague little shop where a sale was going on and everything was too ridiculously cheap. We bought some little silk scarves for a penny three farthings each.
1880 English Mechanic 6 Feb. p. vii (advt.) Clearance sale of..bicycles.
1888 Daily News 10 Jan. The low prices at the stock~taking sales.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 11 Jan. 3/2 Wait till you see my pretty new sale-frock.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan. 3/2 Sale-time, when everything at the shops, from a collar to a costume, is reduced to low prices.
d. Bookselling. The ordinary trade rate.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > wholesale or cost price > trade price > in book trade
scrip1877
sale1900
1900 What will it Cost? 48 [Trade phrases] Sale, 30% discount off published price.
2. Phrases.† b. to make sale (of): to sell. Obsolete.† d. of sale: that is to be sold; vendible, venal.
a. to sale = ‘for sale’ (see 2e). Now only in to put up to sale, formerly †to set to sale (often figurative; in quot. 1576 apparently to abandon), expose, etc. to sale.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [adverb] > on sale
to sella1300
to salec1380
to set on (or a) sale1546
a-sale1553
for salea1616
on offer1881
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 393 Welle niȝ alle her blessyngis ben sett to sale and to prise.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 297 The Ston he profreth to the sale.
a1400 Octouian 1909 And chepede me that chyld to sale, For syxty florencys all be tale.
1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 8 Such persons as brew for theyr owne prouision, and not to sale.
1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. N.iiii But Progne (now in priuie place) Set silence al to sale.
1592 T. Tymme Plaine Discouerie Ten Eng. Lepers D 3 b Whereby they have set to sale for money Christ himselfe.
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 7 A strong presumption that his modesty set there to sale in the frontispice, is not much addicted to blush.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης viii. 66 She pawn'd and set to saile the Crown-Jewels.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 15 Fair piazza's,..where the Merchants..expose to sale their drugs.
1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. v. i. 59 My price! why, King, you do not think you deal With one, who sets his services to sale?
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 156 Those who set themselves, their trusts, and their country to sale.
1810 Act 50 Geo. III c. 41 §6 Every Hawker, Pedlar, Petty Chapman,..carrying to sell, or exposing to Sale, any Goods.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella III. ii. xxv. 412 The most considerable offices in church and state were put up to sale.
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society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)]
to sell awayc1230
to set to (for, on) sale, a-salec1275
sella1330
to make sale (of)c1430
market1455
to make penny of1464
vent1478
to put away1574
dispatch1592
money1598
vent1602
to put off1631
vend1651
hawk1713
realize1720
mackle1724
neat1747
to sell over1837
unload1884
flog1919
move1938
shift1976
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. ix. 180 Which if men made of you saale, mihte no man livinge overbigge yow.
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 26 I wille..the Sexteyn of Bury and the Priour of Dusgylde..make a sale of myn seid hefd place.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Make sale of vyle thynges and trifles, agitor.
1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 114 When God should sende vs to any place where we might make sale.
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iv. 1441 Thou mayst make sale of it to whom thou list.
c. to set on (or †a) sale = ‘to set to sale’ (see 2a); (to be) on or †upon sale = ‘for sale’ (see 2e).
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society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > for sale
to set on (or a) sale1546
vendible1552
saleable1599
venal1662
on (also in) the market1776
society > trade and finance > selling > [adverb] > on sale
to sella1300
to salec1380
to set on (or a) sale1546
a-sale1553
for salea1616
on offer1881
society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > expose or offer for sale
cheapa1225
to set out13..
to put forthc1350
utter?c1400
market1455
offer1472
lovea1500
pitch1530
to set on (or a) sale1546
exposea1610
to bring to market1639
huckster1642
shop1688
deal1760
to put on the market1897
merchandise1926
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. Iii Here is a tale, For honestee, meete to set the dyuell on sale.
1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 72 They bestowe not only benefices..but also set a sale..the holy sacred gyftes of the holy Goost.
1637 Privy Council Reg. in S. Gardiner Documents Proc. against W. Prynne (1877) 59 How those bookes have been dispersed by them upon sale or otherwise.
1793 W. Cowper Let. 30 June (1984) IV. 362 If it is out of print, it is no longer upon sale.
1835 R. Southey Life & Wks. Cowper I. Pref. 6 A book which has been upon sale ever since it was published, twelve years ago.
1901 Times 16 Dec. 8/6 The Times is on Sale for 3d. per Copy at all railway bookstalls in England and Wales.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > for sale > of support or favour
vendablec1400
vendible1579
of sale1598
venal1652
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [adjective] > of nature of bribe > able to be bribed
corrupt1393
wager1567
saleable1579
of sale1598
sale1604
vendible1609
shop-likea1637
emptitious1650
sellable1650
venal1670
bribable1724
on the take1930
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 238 To thinges of sale, a sellers prayse belonges. View more context for this quotation
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ll3 As to the confections of sale, which are in the shoppes. View more context for this quotation
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xix. 80 The house you dwell in proclaimes you to be a Creature of sale . View more context for this quotation
e. for sale: used adjectively, = intended to be sold; used adverbially, = with a view to selling.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > made or intended to be sold
sale1455
for salea1616
made to sell1827
society > trade and finance > selling > [adverb] > on sale
to sella1300
to salec1380
to set on (or a) sale1546
a-sale1553
for salea1616
on offer1881
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. iv. 82 The other is not a thing for sale . View more context for this quotation
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 124 Then they draw them [sc. pots] for Sale, which is cheifly to the poor Crate-men.
1808 Times 24 Feb. Feathers and Quills for Sale.
1829 W. Scott Guy Mannering (new ed.) I. vii. 66 They..sometimes had good pointers for sale.
1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 257 We went into a bookseller's shop to inquire if he had any description of Boston for sale.
1938 R. Field All this & Heaven Too (1939) xxxviii. 488 The best houses in the neighbourhood suddenly stood empty with ‘To Let’ or ‘For Sale’ signs on their walls.
1965 K. Giles Some Beasts no More ii. 42 There was a For Sale notice which alluded to a fine residence and ninety acres of land.
f. sale or (formerly and) return: see quot. 1838. Frequently attributive.
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society > trade and finance > other trading methods > [noun]
fair trading1685
grocery1689
carriage trade1720
sale or (formerly and) return1795
Labour Exchange1828
security system1831
smousingc1876
postal trade1902
triangular trade1934
switch trading1967
relationship management1970
p-y-o1977
counter-trade1978
pick-your-own1980
counter-trading1983
fair trade1986
carry trade1994
1795 T. Peake Cases Nisi Prius 56 Two questions were made, first on the sale and return.
1795 T. Peake Cases Nisi Prius 56 (margin) If goods are delivered on the terms of sale or return.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. Sale and return is a contract, by which goods are delivered by a wholesale dealer to a retailer, to be paid for at a certain rate, if sold again by the retailer; and if not sold, to be returned to the vendor.
1897 Notes & Queries 8th Ser. XII. 215 Many of the papers being sent ‘for sale or return’, and the unsold copies referred to as ‘returns’.
1952 E. Coxhead Play Toward iv. 100 The tickets..were distributed on a sale-or-return basis to every child in the school.
1954 L. Durrell Let. in Spirit of Place (1969) 122 The local bookseller..has been pestering me to help him re-arrange his shop... Is there any sale or return system?
1973 Times 17 Apr. 23/2 A clause forcing direct-sales firms to offer their goods on a ‘sale or return’ basis.
1978 S. Hodges Gollancz vii. 154 Reg Dignum, the London traveller, persuaded Victor to let him sell it [sc. Guilty Men] ‘on sale or return’, a practice which the firm normally never agreed to.
g. sale of work n. a sale of articles that have been made by members of an association, congregation, or the like, held on behalf of some charitable, religious, or political object. Also, a commercial sale of handiwork.
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society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > bazaar, jumble sale, or sale of work
bazaar1807
fair1826
fête1830
festival1843
church fair1844
sale of work1859
rummage sale1890
jumble-sale1898
jumble1931
mini-market1976
1859 in F. K. Prochaska Women & Philanthr. 19th-c. Eng. (1980) 258 (title) Second annual report of the association for the sale of work by ladies of limited means.
1873 Young Englishwoman May 258/1 Can the Editor inform M.A.B. of any repository where needle or network by distressed gentlewomen is removed and sold for their benefit? (New Society for Sale of Work, North Audley Street W).
1890 New Road Chapel Monthly Visitor Feb. 18b/1 Sale of work and mothers' meetings.
1905 Grand Mag. June 810 Ladies..are informed that..a shop or gallery for the sale of work is shortly to be opened.
1917 F. Klickmann Between Larch-woods & Weir ii. 21 The vermilion satin cushion embroidered with yellow eschscholtzias, that had lain in a trunk in the attic since the last Sale of Work but two.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake iii. 446 'Tis post purification we will, sales of work and social service, missus, completing our Abelite union by the adoptation of fosterlings.
1973 A. Behrend Samarai Affair iv. 54 A ride round the farm, a coffee morning or a Conservative sale of work.
1976 M. Hinxman End of Good Woman vii. 99 The success of the last sale of work.
h. sale and lease-back: see lease-back n.
3. † b. That may be had for payment; venal, mercenary. (Cf. salary adj.1) Obsolete.
a. That is made to be sold; that may be purchased (not being needed for home use); hence, ready-made (as opposed to home-made); of inferior quality; e.g. sale bread, sale cloth, sale door, sale gimlet, sale ram, sale ware, sale work (also attributive). Also, connected with or producing things sold or intended for sale, e.g. sale gardener, sale kiln, sale pond. ? Now applied only to animals bred or fattened for sale.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > made or intended to be sold
sale1455
for salea1616
made to sell1827
society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [adjective] > other types of article production
sale1455
countrymade1791
ready-made1799
cruelty-free1986
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > prepared or ready > made ready > ready or in a finished state > of articles for sale
ready-made?a1425
sale1455
made-up1725
society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > made or intended to be sold > connected with or producing
sale1691
1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 304/1 The Subsidie and Awenage of sale Clothes, in the Counte of Wiltes.
1505 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 392 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 That there be no sale bread..mad in towne, but by ffre men.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 69 In old time there were almost an hundreth shops of sale-bookes.
1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 39 God hath not giuen such gifts vnto men, to the end they should make sale-ware of them.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. v. 44 I see no more in you then in the ordinary Of Natures sale -worke? View more context for this quotation
a1674 Earl of Clarendon Dialogue conc. Educ. in Tracts (1727) 314 They would find ample Recompence in the first Growth of their Children, unimpaired by any ill Qualities of Sale-Milk.
1679 T. Shadwell True Widow Epil. Our Poet therefore Sale-work Habits makes.
1691 J. Gibson in Archaeologia 12 191 Darby, at Hoxton,..is master of several curious greens that other sale-gardeners want.
1777 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 20 Feb. (1778) A middling field-load of wheat will yield a sale-load of straw, of 1296 lb.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 396 Most of the farmers here burn lime for themselves..and think they have it much cheaper than it could be got from a sale kiln.
1815 S. Parkes Chem. Catech. I. 300 In the end they [sc. ash-pit doors] will be found to be more economical than any ready-make sale-doors.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales (ed. 2) II. viii. 166 The common English sale gimlets are either soon broken at the point by our woods, or else the handle becomes loose.
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 151 The sale ewe lambs.
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 157 These sale rams are injured, and in many cases rendered useless by overfeeding.
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Sale-pond,..a pond devoted to fishes kept for sale.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [adjective] > of nature of bribe > able to be bribed
corrupt1393
wager1567
saleable1579
of sale1598
sale1604
vendible1609
shop-likea1637
emptitious1650
sellable1650
venal1670
bribable1724
on the take1930
1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore ii. i. 173 Belike then shees some sale curtizan.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 105 Sale-tongu'd Lawyers, wresting Eloquence, Excuse rich wrong, and cast poore Innocence.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 293 A multitude thronged together of vendible or sale souldiors.
1650 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης (ed. 2) i. 12 Nothing troubl'd or offended at the working upward of thir Sale-venom thereupon.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.† sale-shop n. Obsolete
sale catalogue n.
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1791 J. Lackington Memoirs xxxi. 329 I soon after this proposed printing a sale catalogue.
1821 Kaleidoscope 1 May 346/3 Sale catalogue.
1852 Fraser's Mag. June 723/2 When he [sc. a wholesale bookseller] subscribes a book, or issues a sale catalogue.
1910 Quaritch's Catal. No. 286 (title) Sale-Catalogue of the library of David Garrick.
sale-factor n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > auctioneer
portsale-maker1552
crier1556
rouper1560
outcrier1577
outroper1583
vendue master1679
auctioneer1708
sale-factor1770
vendue crier1778
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) II. 829/2 Nor would he trust to the common customs of sale-factors, auctioneers [etc.].
sale-goer n.
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1927 Daily Express 4 July 3/3 Sale-goers are advised to remember the date.
sale-market n.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place
cheapc1000
cheaping-placec1175
cheaping?c1225
marketc1275
marketstead1373
marketplace1389
market set1552
trona1572
cross1577
vent1580
mart1593
emptory1656
market space1800
market stance1864
sale-market1883
1883 C. A. Moloney W. Afr. Fisheries 22 The sale-market is large and wide enough.
sale-room n.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place of auction > [noun]
auction-house1682
vendue house1755
auction-room1767
sale-room1813
auction-mart1821
sales room1840
1813 Examiner 10 May 297/1 Public Sale-rooms.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. vi. 446 The learned babble of the Sale-room.
1902 Daily Chron. 25 Oct. 3/7 These curious sale-room methods.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop
shopc1390
seldc1450
cheap-house1606
bursea1661
swag1676
repository1725
store1731
warehouse1754
sale-shop1757
shoppie1773
emporium1803
mercantile1984
1757 Connoisseur (ed. 2) No. 91. 151 I am sure we have cast-off cloaths sufficient to furnish a sale-shop.
1789 J. Wolcot Imit. Horace i. xii. 31 Who soon shalt keep a saleshop for good places.
1795 J. Aikin Descr. Country round Manch. 233 A sale shop for most articles.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xi. [Sirens] 278 In Lionel Marks's antique saleshop window..candlestick melodeon oozing maggoty blowbags.
1957 Beaver Autumn 38/1 The ‘Saleshop’ classification marked a modest type of urban transition, from fur trade to general store operation.
1976 Derbyshire Times 3 Sept. (Peak ed.) 18/5 (advt.) Self service grocery stores with modern detached house... Spacious living accommodation..plus saleshop 31ft. × 19ft. 6 ins. fully fitted for the trade.
sale week n.
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1912 Sale Catal. Owing to the great pressure of work during the Sale Week..nothing can be sent on approval.
C2. † saleman n. [compare Old High German salaman, Middle High German sal(e)man] Obsolete = salesman n.† sale-piece n. Obsolete ? the sample that attracts purchasers (in quots. figurative).† sale-worthy adj. Obsolete saleable.
sale-block n. a block on which slaves are exposed for sale.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > stand or board on which goods exposed > block on which slaves stood
catasta1650
block1853
sale-block1887
1887 J. C. Harris Free Joe (1888) 54 The prisoner was made to stand on the sale-block so that all might have a fair view of him.
sale-boat n. a boat that conveys fish from the fishing ground to market.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > vessels which store, freeze, or transport fish
well-boat1614
fish-pool1718
sack ship1732
well smack?1758
carrier1825
sale-boat1840
ice boat1846
plunger1860
runner1881
pound-boat1884
run boat1884
fish-carrier1886
smacka1891
shacker1902
Klondiker1926
factory trawler1928
1840 R. Bremner Excursions Denmark II. 389 They [fish] are recaptured at dawn to be again imprisoned on the sale-boats.
sale day n. (a) the day on which a sale is held; (b) Australian and New Zealand, a market-day.
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society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > day of
sale day1840
society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market day
market day?a1425
mart daya1629
sale day1840
1840 Spirit of Times 25 Apr. 90/2 Sale days.
1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Mar. 31/1 Tuesday was sale-day. Monday afternoon was devoted to the yarding of cattle and the yarding and drafting of innumerable sheep.
1937 Burlington Mag. Nov. p. xix/1 Let us hope..that this game..will end on the sale-day.
1948 N. Scanlan Rusty Road i. 12 Thursday was Sale Day..market day, they would call it in England, but there was no market in these small New Zealand towns.
sale-leaseback n. = sale and lease-back at lease-back n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > selling method or technique > types of
branding1913
cross-selling1919
mass marketing1920
supermarketing1940
hard sell1945
market testing1947
sales drive1951
soft sell1953
rack-jobbing1954
switch selling1960
cold selling1961
telesales1962
telemarketing1963
loss-leading1964
test-marketing1964
pyramid selling1965
inertia selling1968
overselling1968
bundling1969
oversell1969
rack job1969
bounceback1970
party plan1973
sale-leaseback1973
up-marketing1975
sellathon1976
upselling1977
cold calling1978
cold call1980
network marketing1981
ambush marketing1987
green marketing1988
relationship marketing1988
freemium1994
e-tailing1995
1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 1 Aug. 5/3 Private placement of mortgages, joint ventures, sale-leasebacks on income properties and land, [etc.].
1978 Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. b1/2 The sale-leaseback arrangement, which enables the farmer to raise money for new equipment despite low farm prices.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > professional
salesman?1530
tradesman1591
saleman1642
tradesperson1758
stockist1922
1642 T. Hill Trade of Truth 34 Christians should be Chapmen to buy, rather than Salemen to sell.
sale note n. U.S. (see quot. 1856).
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1856 J. Bouvier Law Dict. U.S.A. Sale note, a memorandum given by a broker to a seller or buyer of goods, stating the fact that certain goods have been sold by him on account of a person called the seller to another person called the buyer.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive thing
attraction1607
attractive1615
honeypot1618
sale-piece1621
beauty spot1645
eye-catcher1787
good-looker1854
spectacular1874
eye-opener1907
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. ii. ii. 557 Sweet breath, white & euen teeth, which some call the sale-peece.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 135 White teeth being so justly accounted a precious and natural beauty, that they are hence called the Sale-piece.
sale ring n. the ring of buyers formed round an auctioneer at a sale.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place of auction > [noun] > enclosure for livestock
ring1825
sale ring1901
sale-yard1901
1901 Essex Herald 9 Apr. 4/8 The whole of this choice herd came into the sale ring.
sale-worth adj.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > able to be sold
sellablea1382
vendiblec1384
vendablec1400
sale-worthyc1440
market-like1473
sale-worth1481
venable1507
saleable1530
marketable1577
utterable1581
chapmanable1594
selling1770
tenderable1868
1481 in Foster Par. Ch. Whaplode (1889) 94 The said trees..when thei shall be felled..at such tyme as thei be saleworth.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > able to be sold
sellablea1382
vendiblec1384
vendablec1400
sale-worthyc1440
market-like1473
sale-worth1481
venable1507
saleable1530
marketable1577
utterable1581
chapmanable1594
selling1770
tenderable1868
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 441/1 Sale worthy, vendibilis.
1547 tr. A. de Marcourt Bk. Marchauntes (new ed.) c vj I would wit..if her marchantdyse were sale worthy.
sale-yard n. Australian and New Zealand an enclosure in which livestock is sold.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place of auction > [noun] > enclosure for livestock
ring1825
sale ring1901
sale-yard1901
1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career iv. 18 He was a familiar figure at the Goulburn sale yards every Wednesday.
1934 J. Lilico Sheep Dog Mem. 26 The finest backing dogs I have ever seen are in the saleyards at Addington.
1975 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Sept. 61/1 Normally stud stock are sold either from yards on the farm itself, or by auction at recognized centrally situated saleyards.
C3. With sales-, modelled on salesman n., saleswoman n. † sales-work n. Obsolete = sale work at sense 3a.
sales appeal n.
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1931 C. Bedell Seven Keys to Retail Profits iii. 36 Instead of using a $20 bill to give him two profit opportunities, a double sales appeal, many a retailer spends the entire twenty for a quantity of one item.
1936 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 40 289 In the case of commercial aircraft, at any rate, by the gain in ‘sales appeal’ resulting from the general air of cleanness.
sales area n.
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1966 B.B.C. Handbk. 39 Another sales area which has great potential—the distribution of programmes for non-theatric use in schools, universities, training colleges.
sales-book n. a book or record of sales.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > paper or book recording sale
sales-book?1768
sales slip1962
?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 619/1 The Sales-book. This book too is chiefly used by factors; and into it is posted, from the Waste-book, the particular sales of every consigned cargo.
1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 76 The manner that a Sales-book is ruled.
sales campaign n.
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1969 D. C. Hague Managerial Econ. iii. xiii. 288 We talk of price wars, sales campaigns, marketing strategies.
sales chart n.
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1959 ‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene iv. 72 Rhythm and blues have not only swamped ordinary pop music in America and Britain, at least in terms of the sales-chart, [etc.].
sales clerk n. North American a shop asistant.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > shopkeeper > shopworkers
shopman1662
window clerk1770
clerka1790
shop attendant1813
shoppie1818
shop assistant1821
shop-walker1825
counter-jumper1829
show-woman1848
assistant1853
counterman1853
counter-skipper1858
floor-walker1876
floor manager1887
window man1887
frontsman1896
inworker1909
lot attendant1934
sales clerk1934
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Sales clerk.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 39 A 19-year-old Toronto sales clerk.
1979 Honolulu Advertiser 8 Jan. d3/9 Sales Clerk..full time and part time. Apply at B.S. Co. Ward Warehouse.
sales correspondent n.
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1951 in M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 41/3 A book that ought to be read by all advertising writers, sales correspondents, editors and business-paper writers.
1961 Evening Standard 14 July 20/3 Sales Correspondent in an expanding Mail Order Organization.
sales curve n.
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1946 E. Hodgins Mr. Blandings builds his Dream House viii. 118 The Knapp sales curves were going through the roof.
1969 ‘J. Morris’ Fever Grass ix. 81 You know I'm worth it. Just watch your sales curves.
sales drive n. an energetic effort to sell goods extensively.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > selling method or technique > types of
branding1913
cross-selling1919
mass marketing1920
supermarketing1940
hard sell1945
market testing1947
sales drive1951
soft sell1953
rack-jobbing1954
switch selling1960
cold selling1961
telesales1962
telemarketing1963
loss-leading1964
test-marketing1964
pyramid selling1965
inertia selling1968
overselling1968
bundling1969
oversell1969
rack job1969
bounceback1970
party plan1973
sale-leaseback1973
up-marketing1975
sellathon1976
upselling1977
cold calling1978
cold call1980
network marketing1981
ambush marketing1987
green marketing1988
relationship marketing1988
freemium1994
e-tailing1995
1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 144/2 Every success drive and sales drive is committed to erasing this [sc. resistance] in all its varieties.
sales-drive v. transitive.
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society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > sell in specific manner
retail1365
tap1478
retaliate1640
outsella1687
wholesale1792
to sell short1852
hustle1887
brand1909
oversell1928
package1946
soft-sell1958
test-market1958
mass-market1959
sales-drive1962
bundle1969
cross-sell1972
up-market1972
onsell1979
1962 Punch 21 Nov. 754/1 To..sales-drive their dish-washing machines.
sales engineer n. a salesman with technical knowledge of his goods and their market.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > professional > technical salesman
sales engineer1942
1942 Sun (Baltimore) 16 July 2/6 Three self-styled ‘sales engineers’ stood to garner commission on millions of dollars of Government war work.
1969 Sales Engineer Mar. 29/1 (advt.) A Sales Engineer is any person who is directly or indirectly selling technical products to industry.
sales engineering n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > selling with technical knowledge
sales engineering1969
1969 Sales Engineer Mar. 29/1 (advt.) Sales Engineering is not a trade, it is a profession, and the readers of Sales Engineer are professionals.
sales figures n.
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1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising x. 99 The only criterion of success known to the advertising profession—sales figures.
sales force n.
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1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Sales force, the sales clerks or sales agents of an establishment.
1974 Times 9 Mar. 24/6 (advt.) Opportunity for a girl..to join Sales Force in the exciting new ski development of Anzère.
1980 M. Babson Queue here for Murder ii. 21 Soon the Bonnard's sales force would start clocking in, and..after that the customers.
sales-gentleman n.
sales girl n.
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1887 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 2 Feb. 4/7 In order to cripple his old partner, he offered superior inducements to the sales girls to go with him.
1978 M. Kenyon Deep Pocket xi. 136 The squeak of a salesgirl flattened against a wall.
sales-goer n.
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1925 Glasgow Herald 6 Jan. 7/2 The large number of men among the sales-goers.
sales graph n.
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1967 R. Jeffries Deadly Marriage i. 8 I've returned with firm orders for three parlour-sheds... That'll put the old graph up... The sales graph.
sales-hand n.
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1927 Daily Express 17 Feb. 5/5 As mannequins and as sales-hands.
sales-lady n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > professional > woman
tradeswoman1656
saleswoman1704
sales-lady1856
1856 Daily Alta California (San Francisco) 29 Oct. 4/3 (advt.) Wanted—By a young lady, a situation as saleslady in a dry goods, trimming, or millinery store.
1883 Cent. Mag. 26 610/2 The..ranks of seamstresses and ‘sales-ladies’.
1928 Sunday Disp. 5 Aug. 5/6 An amatory porter and a sales-lady sitting on some dirty steps on the Underground.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 20 June 8- d/5 (advt.) Mobile Lot-Imperial Park. All city utili. Call Real Estate saleslady Geri Erickson, 252-0264.
sales-manager n.
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1913 Writer's Mag. Nov. 184/2 The Accountant, Detroit, Mich., is in the market for interesting business stories—material of interest to business managers, advertising and sales managers, [etc.].
1933 H. Nicolson Diary 5 Jan. (1966) 131 We are then met by..the sales-manager of Doubleday Doran.
1979 R. Perry Bishop's Pawn i. 13 My cover as sales manager for a multinational electronics firm.
sales-master n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > professional > man in charge
sales-master1890
1890 Farmer's Gaz. 4 Jan. 1/3 The salesmasters and dealers.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 380 A worthy salesmaster that drove his trade for live stock and meadow auctions hard by Mr Gavin Low's yard in Prussia street.
sales message n.
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1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising iii. 30 The kernel of the sales message..has to be in some way special and different for each product.
sales outlet n.
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1957 C. Smith Case of Torches iv. 46 We must..keep the Belgian company as healthy as possible otherwise we stand to lose their valuable sales outlets.
1977 Times 5 Nov. 12/7 For..the purchasers of holidays, there will be..a wider choice of sales outlets.
sales-people n.
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1876 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 599/2 I walked through the crowds of purchasers and salespeople.
1928 Publishers' Weekly 9 June 2370 Special lectures for groups of sales people from the local stores.
1976 Evening Standard 14 June 24/8 (advt.) 2 salespeople required to manage small gift shop.
1978 Tucson (Arizona) Mag. Dec. 33/1 If you find pleasure in being the only customer in the midst of a convention of used car salespeople, you'll love buying stereo equipment in Tucson.
sales-person n.
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1920 Harper's Mag. June 86 We have long been familiar with salesman and saleswoman—even, alas! with saleslady; and the latest member of the family to whom we have been introduced to, salesperson, a name intended to apply to employee of either sex.
1928 Publishers' Weekly 10 Nov. 1962/2 We shall be glad to send a complimentary copy of the novel on request to any retail salesperson to read.
1955 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Sept. (B ed.) 10/7 The ‘pencil box’ she bought for her grandson and which the salesperson called a ‘companion’, wasn't a box at all.
1976 Evening Standard 14 June 24/5 (advt.) Salespersons required for expanding Northern based home improvement company.
1980 Times 18 Feb. 12/6 One of those cheap department stores where you may browse for several weeks without even locating a salesperson at all.
sales pitch n. [pitch n.2 5b] = sales talk n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > offering for sale > persuasive or promotional sales rhetoric
patter1851
sales talk1926
sales pitch1962
sales pitchery1968
1962 Listener 18 Jan. 133/2 Ditchburn went through a masterly sales pitch.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 19 June 1/5 In fact, as things turned out, it was an extraordinary sales pitch for Reagan himself. It drew $600,000 and made Reagan the new conservative star.
1980 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Feb. 145/2 Managers are impatient and practical people who, having accepted our sales pitch, will want to learn how to use what they have bought.
sales pitchery n.
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the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun]
leadinga1300
suasionc1374
persuasionc1384
inducingc1480
induction1490
persuading1530
persuade1590
persuase1599
overswaying1611
inducementa1616
moral suasion1642
sales pitchery1968
society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > offering for sale > persuasive or promotional sales rhetoric
patter1851
sales talk1926
sales pitch1962
sales pitchery1968
1968 Punch 7 Aug. 206/1 Close scrutiny reveals the fan of a camp follower beneath the canopy; or, perhaps, then as now, she was sketched in merely as a piece of crypto-sexual sales-pitchery.
sales presentation n.
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1947 Fortune Nov. 175/1 (advt.) They bring real ‘theater’ to a sales presentation.
1981 W. H. Hallahan Trade iv. 111 My firm is doing the sales presentation for the Essen Arms Company.
sales promoter n.
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1935 Punch 4 Sept. 264/1 The great advantage of being a Sales Promoter is that the working hours are short.
sales promoting n.
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1935 Punch 4 Sept. 264/1 Sales Promoting is one of those lovely jobs in which it is impossible to judge by results.
sales promotion n.
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1916 (title) Sales promotion by mail: how to sell and how to advertise.
1964 A. Wykes Gambling iii. 70 A young Indian businessman..went to Tokyo on a sales-promotion visit for his firm.
1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 127 346/2 Ingenuity, in..sales promotion..creates better value for the customer.
sales rep n. colloquial abbreviation of sales representative n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > commercial traveller
rideout1752
rider1752
outrider1762
traveller1790
commercial traveller1807
bagman1808
town traveller1808
commis voyageur1825
roundman1827
drummer1828
travelling salesman1833
bag woman1845
commercial1861
fieldman1875
outride1879
roundsman1884
knight of the road1889
representative1918
sales representative1949
sales rep1959
rep1973
1959 New Statesman 19 Dec. 874/1 One young sales rep, whom I met quite early in the month, was already discovering his soul and finding the process painful.
1969 Observer 23 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 23/3 Sales reps in their company cars are my number-one headache.
1979 Business Traveller Nov.–Dec. 46/1 The sales rep has been sweating it out..in the hope of clinching a much bigger deal.
sales representative n. one who represents a commercial firm to prospective customers and solicits orders; a traveller (cf. representative n. 3a).
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > commercial traveller
rideout1752
rider1752
outrider1762
traveller1790
commercial traveller1807
bagman1808
town traveller1808
commis voyageur1825
roundman1827
drummer1828
travelling salesman1833
bag woman1845
commercial1861
fieldman1875
outride1879
roundsman1884
knight of the road1889
representative1918
sales representative1949
sales rep1959
rep1973
1949 Daily Tel. 21 Nov. 2/5 Experienced Sales Representatives.
1981 ‘E. Ferrars’ Experiment with Death iv. 83 He's a sales representative for a firm of confectioners.
sales resistance n. the ability or disposition to resist buying something offered for sale; also figurative.
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society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > resistance to buying
sales resistance1925
1925 New Yorker 4 July (verso front cover) ‘Beggar on Horseback’ presents no sales resistance problem... The buying public flocks.
1933 P. Fleming Brazilian Adventure i. x. 88 Girls..sold flags for the Red Cross... Posters exhorted them to ‘give our young men courage’: an injunction which I suppose they thought it would be easier to obey if they first broke down the young men's sales resistance.
1972 M. Babson Murder on Show xvi. 185 Heaven help you the day some woman gets her hooks into you—you've no sales resistance at all.
1979 E. H. Gombrich Sense of Order i. 19 In the history of Greek rhetorical theory such ‘sales resistance’ developed into an aesthetic prejudice on the part of purists against all forms of verbal fireworks.
sales-resistant adj.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > able to be sold > not
unsaleable1565
unmerchantable1602
unvendible1642
unmarketable1654
unsellinga1704
invendible1706
unvendable1753
sales-resistant1957
unsellable1975
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Mar. 174/3 His sympathies are so one-sidedly Jewish that he sometimes makes a reader sales-resistant.
sales room n. = sale-room n. at Compounds 1 (see above).
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place of auction > [noun]
auction-house1682
vendue house1755
auction-room1767
sale-room1813
auction-mart1821
sales room1840
1840 Knickerbocker 16 226 Ejecting a crowded audience from his sales-room, because an unlucky wight had the temerity to bid six-pence for a tattered copy of Paradise Lost.
1891 Cent. Dict. Salesroom, same as sale-room.
1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xxi. 229 The block..was filled by a row of automobile sales-rooms.
1981 Times 20 July 18/5 Used vehicle outlets..in..‘upmarket’ salesrooms.
sales slip n. a slip of paper recording the price of an article and other details of its sale.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > paper or book recording sale
sales-book?1768
sales slip1962
1962 Lebende Sprachen 7 35/3 Sales slip, Barverkaufsschein, Kassenzettel.
1965 G. Jackson Let. 25 Feb. in Soledad Brother (1971) 64 I asked Robert to send me some shoes... They have to be sent from Sears by the salesman, cost no more than $25, have the price or sales slip in the box.
1976 New Yorker 23 Feb. 35/1 Do you have a sales slip?
sales talk n. persuasive rhetoric designed to promote the sale of goods or (transferred) the acceptance of an idea.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > offering for sale > persuasive or promotional sales rhetoric
patter1851
sales talk1926
sales pitch1962
sales pitchery1968
the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] > that which persuades > speech
appeal1833
pitch1876
sales talk1926
1926 Amer. Speech 2 97/2 Slang is regularly employed, especially in the ‘sales-talk’ letters [sent by business firms], but it must have a definite snap and appropriateness.
1933 Punch 1 Feb. 122/2 ‘No sales-talk?’ ‘No... These bolts sell themselves.’
1968 Mrs. L. B. Johnson Diary 1 Aug. in White House Diary (1970) 697 Mayor Richard Daley..was giving Lyndon a sales talk about coming to Chicago.
1974 N. Marsh Black as he's Painted ii. 52 Motivated by sales-talk and embarrassment, he bought..a cat bed-basket.
sales tax n. a tax levied on the retail sales of commodities.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > duty on goods bought or sold
alcabala1595
purchase tax1883
sales tax1921
PT1958
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 27 Oct. 2/6 An important decision affecting the Dominion sales tax was rendered by Judge Gunn here.
1940 Economist 31 Aug. 282/1 To secure additional tax revenue, the sales tax has been raised from 5 to 10 per cent [in New Zealand].
1978 N.Y. Times 30 Mar. b1/2 His anti-government attitude and promise to veto any sales tax or income tax the Legislature may pass has won him many followers.
sales volume n.
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1959 Listener 26 Mar. 552/2 In order to increase the sales-volume of a new shade of lipstick.
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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > other types of work
church worka1225
kirk work1418
fieldwork1441
labour of love1592
life's work1660
shop work1696
outwork1707
private practice1724
tide-work1739
sales-work1775
marshing1815
work in progress1815
life-work1837
relief work1844
sharp practice1847
near work1850
slop-work1861
repetition work1866
side work1875
rework1878
wage-slavery1886
work in progress1890
war work1891
busywork1893
screen work1912
staff-work1923
gig work1927
knowledge work1959
WIP1966
telework1970
playwork1986
laboratory work2002
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Saleswork, work done for sales, work slightly performed.
Draft additions September 2013
sales push n. an intensive marketing campaign to achieve greater sales.
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1915 Advertising & Selling Feb. 48/2 The modern salesman is really not selling the merchandise nearly so much as the sales-push behind that merchandise.
1966 R. N. Farmer et al. Incidents in applying Managem. Theory lxxxvii. 162 Without any sales push at all, we sell over 2,000 snow shovellers this winter.
2008 Irish Times 10 Jan. (Property section) 4/5 The international sales push will begin on January 24th in Dublin.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
† salen.3
Obsolete.
A rope for tying up cattle. Also attributive† saleband n. Obsolete
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [adjective]
salec1299
bastarda1348
sorry1372
slight1393
shrewd1426
singlec1449
backc1450
soberc1450
lesser1464
silly?a1500
starven1546
mockado1577
subaltern1578
bastardly1583
wooden1592
starved1604
perishing1605
starveling1611
minor1612
starvy1647
potsherd1655
low1727
la-la1800
waif1824
lathen1843
one-eyed1843
snide1859
bobbery1873
jerkwater1877
low-grade1878
shoddy1882
tinhorn1886
jerk1893
cheapie1898
shaganappi1900
buckeye1906
reach-me-down1907
pissy1922
crappy1928
cruddy1935
el cheapo1967
pound shop1989
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > equipment
salec1299
salebandc1299
shacklec1460
marking stone1534
low bell1578
baikiea1598
nose-hook1778
sjambok1790
shangy1808
cow-bell1809
ox frame1844
bullwhip1848
humbug1850
stock-whip1852
bull-whacker1858
cattle-bell1872
bull-whack1885
leading-staff1886
bullock-bell1911
bull-holder1940
c1299 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 496 In tractubus, cordis, salband.., 28s. 11d.
1434–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 232 Redyls, 6 hoxes bowes, 7 salys, ferrura boum et plowshon.
1599 in J. Barmby Memorials St. Giles's, Durham (1896) 27 Paid for a saile to the bull, jd.
1668 in J. Barmby Memorials St. Giles's, Durham (1896) 75 For a sayle and band to ty the Bull in.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
† salen.4
Obsolete.
A hall.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > large or principal room
hallc1200
sala1611
aula1626
sale1632
salle1765
ha'1808
saal1855
megaron1877
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 401 This great Cell or Hall, is a yard deepe of blackish Water..: Hauing more than halfe way entered in this Sale [etc.].
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 205 The next day, [he] obteined Audience of the King; Who in a great Sale (or Hall) sate on his Throne.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
salev.
rare.
1. intransitive and transitive. To sell.
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society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)]
sell1609
sale1809
society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)] > be sold or find buyers
sell1609
utter1611
vend1622
vent1622
to go off1625
move1759
sale1809
to sell (also go, go off) like hot cakes1839
1809 Gifford in Mem. F. Hodgson (1878) I. 115 Lord Byron's poem sales well I understand.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 530 Lovely ladies saling gloves.
2. intransitive. To hold a sale; to shop at the sales.
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society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > hold a sale [verb (intransitive)]
sale1901
society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (intransitive)] > visit (and buy in) shops > at the sales
sale1901
1901 Sketch 3 July 443/1 To go ‘saleing’ in Bond Street.
1928 Daily Express 19 June 3/2 Men went ‘sale-ing’ at lunch time.
1929 Daily Express 8 Jan. 3/4 The great furniture houses are ‘saling’.
Derivatives
ˈsaler n. a person who frequents sales. rare.
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society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > shopper > other shoppers
home buyer1774
comparison shopper1911
saler1928
personal shopper1941
home shopper1958
junker1968
teleshopper1976
shopaholic1977
power shopper1986
cybershopper1994
1928 Morning Post 25 June 8 Many experienced ‘salers’ will tell you that it is an excellent plan to go to the sales with an open mind.
ˈsaleing n. Obsolete
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society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > shopping > shopping at specific time
Christmas shopping1857
saleing1902
society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > offering for sale > action of holding a sale
saleing1902
1902 To-day 35 447/1 All London is ‘saleing’ at the present moment.
1928 Daily Express 31 Dec. 5/3 ‘Saleing’ has become a specialised art.
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