SALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sales mean? 

• SALES (noun)
  The noun SALES has 1 sense:

1. income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time

  Familiarity information: SALES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

gross revenue; gross sales; sales

Hypernyms ("sales" is a kind of...):

income (the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time)

 Context examples 

If you are in sales or in your own business, schedule presentations with companies you would like to bring in.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

By 2012, sales had jumped to roughly 476 million tons.

(Pesticides blamed for rise in colon cancer deaths, SciDev.Net)

Oh, I daresay by consulting our sales book we could very easily tell you.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Samsung announced earlier in the day that it was stopping all global sales and exchanges of the Galaxy Note 7, and advised all customers to stop using the device immediately.

(Samsung Ends Production of Problem-Plagued Galaxy Note 7, Voanews)

A further nine products were taken off the shelf after the suppliers chose to withdraw local sales rather than provide information to the TGA.

(Numerous home pregnancy tests recalled after false negative results reported, Wikinews)

Encouraged by his several small sales, Martin went back to hack-work.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The U.S. Orphan Drug Act (1983) encourages development of these therapeutics by tax breaks and a seven-year monopoly on drug sales.

(Orphan Drug, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): safety, sales, financial, manufacturing, Review Board contact

(Organizational Contact Type Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Palm oil, the most widely used vegetable oil in the world with total sales in 2018 topping US$30 billion dollars, contributes greatly to the GDP of several tropical countries.

(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)

In the deal, Austrian, United Kingdom and New Zealand production sites are to be kept, with market sales expected to cover for the price in the long run.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)