Salesmanship

Quick meaning: Salesmanship is a noun meaning The art or skill of selling products, services or ideas through persuasion and effective communication.

Meaning

The art or skill of selling products, services or ideas through persuasion and effective communication.

More Meanings

1. (UK, marketing, business) A position as salesman.

Example Sentences

Korine wants to throw up the MTV-advertising world of perfect, chic imagery and fluent salesmanship.

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.

It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.

[…] 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 himself, “I have a’most a mind to give this to Mary.”

Word Forms

• salesmanships

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include selling, sales, salespersonship, sales pitch, cross-sell, upsell.

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