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The art or skill of selling products, services or ideas through persuasion and effective communication.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 2012, Nathan Rabin, “The Simpsons (Classic): ‘Treehouse of Horror III’” [season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992], The A.V. Club, TV Reviews, 29 April, 2012, The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.
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A position as salesman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
Topics: business, marketing
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skill in selling; skill in persuading people to buy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he read a book on salesmanship but it didn't help
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Broader terms: skill, accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment
Etymology tree English sales Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English salesman Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English salesmanship From salesman + -ship.
