Selling
Meanings and phrases
selling
- the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money; merchandising; marketing
n.
- a characteristic of something that is up for sale that makes it attractive to potential customers
- One particular selling point was the availability of homesteads.
- One major selling point of the Galaxy and S-MAX is the "FoldFlatSystem".
- Another major selling point of these materials is their lack of need for paint.
n.
- the price at which something is offered for sale; asking price
- The selling price of the Grafton was £55 i.e.
- They achieved this without reducing the original selling price.
- The selling price of patchouli in the region fluctuates markedly.
n.
- sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price); short sale
- According to Left, he has made profits every year since he started short selling.
- The book is also critical of campaigns against naked short selling, and takes a dim view of much financial journalism.
- In 2007 he criticized Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne and his campaign against naked short selling in numerous articles.
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- It remains the band's best selling album worldwide.
- "One Life" was the 117th best selling album of 2008.
- It became the 73rd best selling album of 2005 in Asia.
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- In early 1979, Burke and Hill began selling heroin.
- In 1997, Titzer began selling "Your Baby Can Learn!"
- The company also began selling flood insurance online.
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- It remains the band's best selling album worldwide.
- "One Life" was the 117th best selling album of 2008.
- It became the 73rd best selling album of 2005 in Asia.
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- In 2016, BMW was the twelfth highest selling brand in the United States.
- 2 and is the second highest selling album by an Australian artist for that year.
- In the United States, "Touch Not the Cat" was the 9th highest selling book of 1976.
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- It was a major success, selling more than 75,000 copies.
- It maintained the #1 spot on the second day selling more than 50,000 copies.
- By the end of the 2000s, Muji was selling more than 7,000 different products.
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- "Fossil trading" is the practice of buying and selling fossils.
- O'Hara made a fortune buying and selling textile machinery and factories.
- He also was involved in buying and selling property in Southern California.
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- 's biggest selling release.
- For three years the album remained the biggest selling album for Pye Records.
- "I've Been Expecting You" remains his biggest selling album, with over 2.7 million copies sold.
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- It was the top selling single in the UK in 1959.
- "Youngblood" was the top selling single in 2018 in Australia.
- dBASE was one of the top selling software titles in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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- They started selling self-styled chivalric orders.
- The brewery started selling beer in December 2004.
- From 1998 to 2003, a Slovak version also started selling.
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- It was the top selling single in the UK in 1959.
- It would be their second best selling single.
- "Youngblood" was the top selling single in 2018 in Australia.
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- In the early 1990s he was at the helm before selling out to Bill Carr.
- Collins won 27 races before selling the horse to Ursula "Urkie" Newton.
- Moore owned a taxi firm in Water Orton, Warwickshire, before selling it in 2015.
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- It operates by selling off unsold travel inventory at discounted prices.
- selling off plan.
- They demolished the buildings in 1538, selling off the stones and building materials.
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- It remains the band's best selling album worldwide.
- "One Life" was the 117th best selling album of 2008.
- It became the 73rd best selling album of 2005 in Asia.
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- The car quickly became the fastest selling sports car on the UK market.
- However, it became the museum's fastest selling show with over 300,000 visitors.
- It became her second number-one album in the UK, and her fastest selling album to date.
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- They are the Danish band with most selling albums in Denmark.
- One of the best selling albums from this label is Late Night Moods compilations.
- Released in 1995, it is one of the most popular and best selling albums by the band.
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- It would be their second best selling single.
- It became her best selling single with a total of 13,470 copies sold.
- As their 17th best selling single it has sold a total of 85,000 copies.
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- Holiday and Edgeworth were Larus' best selling products.
- PopSockets LLC started selling products in January 2014, via direct sales on its website.
- In the traditional offline world of selling products there is something known as "minimum viable product."
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- There are also several shops selling glass figures, ornaments and gifts.
- The Zhang's and other shops selling these sculptures can be found on the street.
- In 2008, Wang and some friends set up Xiao Bar Wang (小霸王), a chain of shops selling Taiwanese street snacks.
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- In 1997 Welles started an online business selling pictures of herself.
- Alastair still helps run his family business selling classic tractor parts online.
- He set up a mail order business selling records which by 1990 had a turnover of over £1.5 million.
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- The smoking ban in England has caused The Fumoir to stop selling cigars.
- In December 2011, however, restaurants on the Pearl were told to stop selling alcohol.
- Management believed that "once the Apple III was out, the Apple II would stop selling in six months", Wozniak said.
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- In addition, doctors were selling drugs for extra income.
- Everybody ended up dead, in jail, on drugs, selling drugs.
- However, the pair continue selling drugs.
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- It was among the best selling books in the United States in 1884.
- He often thought about going to New York and selling books on the street.
- He first introduced in Galicia the system of selling books through agents.
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- was selling well in the US having been recorded prior to the change in line-up.
- "Compute Gazette" noted that the series was still selling well four years after its release.
- He said that although the concerts were selling well, Depeche Mode struggled to sell records.
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- The online retailer Amazon stopped selling the brand in 2009.
- In November 2018, PopSockets LLC stopped selling PopSockets grips on amazon.com, due to pricing disputes with Amazon.
- Bicycle retailers in several states stopped selling all Vista Outdoor products, citing the company's support for the NRA.
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- "Collide" later became Epic Records' first platinum single, eventually selling 1.5 million downloads.
- It was very popular, it was reprinted four times in 1934, eventually selling 10,000 copies at the height of the Great Depression.
- The album peaked at No.3 in the UK and spent most of the year in the charts, eventually selling over 600,000 copies in the UK alone.
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- In the United States, "Touch Not the Cat" was the 9th highest selling book of 1976.
- He is also a media consultant and author of a best selling book "Lebanon Shot Twice".
- Schuller is the author of the national best selling book titled "Imagine Happiness", published in 2012.
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- She is best known for her vocal on Hayden James' platinum selling single "Numb".
- 2015 – The Beginning End and in Between – Produced by platinum selling singer songwriter Marshall Crenshaw and Stewart Lerman.
- "Live Evil" was released in January 1983, but was overshadowed by Ozzy Osbourne's platinum selling album "Speak of the Devil".
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- Sun-yi tells him that she's not selling the place.
- Target and Wal-Mart are not selling the album, and Target is actually my biggest retailer.
- Realizing she's fallen in love with him, she tells Gene, "You're not alone and you're not selling the mine."
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- "Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer" was Electronic Art's top selling game for 1987.
- "7'scarlet" was the 16th best selling game in Japan during its debut week, selling 3,128 copies.
- By October 2012, it had sold 150,000 units and as of July 2013, is the best selling game in the series.
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- In 2013 MSV launched the BRDC Formula 4 Championship, selling all 24 cars within a month.
- This lease was also lost, which resulted in selling all of the rail car fleet (both freight and passenger cars).
- Bicycle retailers in several states stopped selling all Vista Outdoor products, citing the company's support for the NRA.