salesmanship

Noun

salesmanship (countable and uncountable, plural salesmanships)

1. The art or skill of selling products, services or ideas through persuasion and effective communication.
   • […] this man worked at his business all the harder, with the brightness of the home-joys fading. But it went very hard with him, more than once, when he made a good stroke of salesmanship, to have to put the money in the bottom of his pocket, without even rubbing a bright half-crown, and saying to...1880, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 9, in Mary Anerley, volume 2, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, page 162
   • Babbitt’s spectacles had huge, circular, frameless lenses of the very best glass; the ear-pieces were thin bars of gold. In them he was the modern business man; one who gave orders to clerks and drove a car and played occasional golf and was scholarly in regard to Salesmanship.1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter I, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC
2. (UK) A position as salesman.