sales
/seɪlz/
sales noun: the activities involved in selling goods or services. Also the plural of sale.
Noun
sales pl (plural only)
- The activities involved in selling goods or services.
- He's likable and motivated: perfect for a career in sales.
- We have a sales training program beginning this Monday.
- The amount or value of goods and services sold.
- Sales were up 12% over last year.
Proper noun capitalized: Sales
Sales (plural Saleses)
- A surname from Catalan.
Also used as
sales is also the plural of sale.
sales meaning in Urdu, Telugu, Kannada and Nepali
sales in Urdu
- فروختات
sales in Telugu
- అమ్మకాలు, విక్రయాలు
sales in Kannada
- ಮಾರಾಟಗಳು
sales in Nepali
- बिक्रीहरू
Examples of sales in a sentence
- His sales experience translated well into his new job as a fund-raiser.
- Increasing sales by 20% in the last quarter was seen as a major accomplishment for the business.
- This spreadsheet lets you drill down to daily or even hourly sales figures.
Forms of sales
| plural | Saleses |
|---|
Origin of sales
From Spanish, from Catalan sales.
Words formed from sales
- Salesian
- aftersales
- book sales club
- e-sales
- goods and sales tax
- gross sales
- in the sales
- net sales
- nonsales
- postsales
- presales
- sales advisor
- sales agent
- sales assistant
- sales associate
- salesbook
- salesbot
- salesboy
- sales budget
- saleschild
- sales clerk
- salesclerk
- salescritter
- sales engineer
- sales floor
- salesfloor
- sales force
- salesforce
- salesgirl
- saleslady
- sales-lady
- sales ledger
- salesman
- salesmarketer
- salesmaster
- sales order
- salesperson
- salespersonship
- sales pitch
- salespoint
- sales profit
- sales rep
- sales representative
- sales resistance
- salesrobot
- salesroom
- sales slip
- sales talk
- sales tax
- sales team
- sales volume
- saleswise
- saleswoman
- saleswomanship
- salesy
- salesyard
- smarketing
- system sales
- telesales
- telesalesperson
Phrases with sales
- tag sales
- bake sales
- barn sales
- boot sales
- fire sales
- roup sales
- sales reps
- seat sales
- wash sales
- yard sales
- drive sales
- flash sales
46 more phrasesFewer phrases
- plate sales
- sales slips
- sales talks
- sales taxes
- sales teams
- short sales
- white sales
- estate sales
- forced sales
- garage sales
- jumble sales
- raffle sales
- sales agents
- sales clerks
- sales floors
- sales forces
- sales people
- sales person
- volume sales
- blowout sales
- rummage sales
- sales ledgers
- sales of work
- sales persons
- sales pitches
- sales profits
- sales volumes
- car boot sales
- conquest sales
- distress sales
- sales advisors
- clearance sales
- sales engineers
- scavenger sales
- book sales clubs
- Cinderella sales
- distressed sales
- sales assistants
- sales associates
- sales on approval
- bring-and-buy sales
- special order sales
- white elephant sales
- goods and sales taxes
- sales representatives
- days sales outstanding
Words that rhyme with sales
Questions about sales
- What does sales mean?
- Sales means the activities involved in selling goods or services.
- What is sales in Urdu?
- Sales in Urdu is فروختات. See Sales meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is sales?
- Sales can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sales?
- Sales is pronounced /seɪlz/.
Words near sales in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sales (page history and authors); Sales (page history and authors); sales (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sales (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sales (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sales (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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