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sales

Sales is the number or value of things sold. The stronger economy has boosted auto sales by $650 million over last year. Retail sales have fallen for two months in a row. Sales is the part of a company or industry that tries to get people to buy more. She's now Seattle's director of marketing and sales. I'm not the kind of person who can be successful in sales.

sales

(= gross sales) income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time

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Sales English » English

sales account

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Simple sentences

I talked with our sales people.
Beer sales are at the mercy of the weather.
The manner in which the new salesman made top sales level was an eye-opener to his supervisor.
The sales girl waited on me.
Would you please put me in touch with the General Manager of Overseas Sales of AB Software Ltd?
Our sales are decreasing.
I especially want to thank our record-breaking sales team.
Do you have any sales distributors in Japan?
Sales fell off in the third quarter.
The entire sales staff has worked around the clock for a week.
Tom got an award for the highest sales at his company.
All sales are final.
Prices drop in the winter clearance sales.
Our sales campaign is successful in a big way.
The report is not encouraging sales wise.
Slow economic recovery has sent auto sales plummeting.
We currently have 200 well organized sales offices all over Japan.
Sales are down now.
Sales are down this month.
Sales should double this year.
I am a member of the sales department.
The sales in Japan are small in comparison with those in Europe.
The meeting on sales promotion is dragging on.
As head of the sales team she reports only to the managing director.

Movie subtitles

I've achieved the highest sales in the East London area in the past fortnight.
I cannot believe that I turned down the ad sales job.
Now all we have to do is sales talk the girls into coming across.
It's sales week, and the department stores are full.
Flora, you'll notice when you look through my sales book I cancelled slip number five, but I deducted it from the total.
Tell them to ask for Mr. Katona, the sales department.
Here's the sales slip for them.
Release our sales clerk.
They give quite a sales talk, don't they?
The way they'll write anything just to get it down on the sales sheet.
And I wanted another witness besides Phyllis to hear me give him a sales talk.
The semiannual sales records are out.
He's got the best sales record in the office.
I pressed your pants. You might want to see McLary about that sales job.
The sales tax.
What sales tax?
Tell them to ask for Mr. Katona, the sales department. All right.
I just came over to check our recording sales.
Look who's got who. Release our sales clerk.
Here's the figures on tonight's sales.
Checking up on the ticket sales.
He was checking up on the ticket sales.
The way they don't do things! The way they'll write anything just to get it down on the sales sheet.
The semiannual sales records are out. You're high man, Walter.
Exhibitors will use their theatres as centres for bond sales, salvage drives, blood donations, Red Cross campaigns and other projects.
I can hear from here Aziani's sales pitch.
If we're meeting at 11:00, get me the quarterly space sales.
There's lots of sales this week, Mr. Norton. - Mm-hmm.
Sales department.
To boost sales.
It's a percentage paid on sales.
It's a percentage on sales.

News and current affairs

These are national funds that, in boom years, receive revenues from sales of natural resources to be set aside against a rainy day.
Approximately two million Americans are now serving either prison or jail time, over one million of them for non-violent offenses (a preponderance of these either for drug use or low-level drug sales).
Just as the collapse of the real estate bubble was predictable, so are its consequences: housing starts and sales of existing homes are down and housing inventories are up.
First, their commitment to oppose America does not include a pre-emptive sacrificing of essential oil sales that keep their run-down economies churning.
A shameful legacy of President Menem's government in the 1990s was that it prevented the investigation and prosecution of serious improprieties, corruption, illegal arms sales, and major terrorist acts.
Consider also what is happening to private consumption and retail sales.
Recent monthly figures suggest a pick-up in retail sales.
But, because the official statistics capture mostly sales by larger retailers and exclude the fall in sales by hundreds of thousands of smaller stores and businesses that have failed, consumption looks better than it really is.
But the global downturn may also accentuate protectionism, especially if nationalistic impulses gain the upper hand, perhaps stimulated by fire-sales of domestic assets (as we saw during the Asian financial crisis).
In many developing countries, total tax revenue is derived from three main sources: domestic taxes on goods and services (sales and excise taxes), direct taxes (primarily on corporations), and, most important, taxes on foreign trade (import duties).
The industry's global sales are greater than the GDP of all but the five largest economies, and it employs more than 50 million people worldwide.
Reportedly, some art sales today result in paintings merely being moved from one section of a storage vault to another, recalling how the New York Federal Reserve registers gold sales between national central banks.
Home sales, prices, and construction all rose last year, while foreclosures declined.
For example, they try to squeeze as much as possible out of land sales, thereby pushing up housing prices and helping to inflate asset bubbles.
Over time, the persistence of these conditions undermined the competitiveness of domestic industry, impeding sales of Brazilian products not only internationally, but also in the robust and growing internal market.
STANFORD - The Chinese government's heavy-handed efforts to contain recent stock-market volatility - the latest move prohibits short selling and sales by major shareholders - have seriously damaged its credibility.
The trouble is that many hospitals and doctors rely on drug sales for a large portion of their revenues, which creates a powerful incentive to find ways to circumvent the rules.
The police finally stepped in and, after a careful investigation, announced that they had found the true criminal: Yang Yongming, a private businessman whom the local lottery administration had contracted to organize ticket sales.
NEW DELHI - The rise in US arms sales to India is being widely cited as evidence of the two countries' deepening defense relationship.
Does the recently issued Joint Declaration on Defense Cooperation, which establishes intent to move beyond weapons sales to the co-production of military hardware,mark a turning point, or is it merely a contrivance to placate India?
With US military spending slowing and other export markets remaining tight, American defense firms are eager to expand sales to India, which is now the world's largest arms importer.
China objected to President Barack Obama's receiving the Dalai Lama in the White House, as well as to the administration's arms sales to Taiwan.

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