What does selling mean?

Definitions for selling
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. selling, merchandising, marketingnoun

    the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money

Wiktionary

  1. sellingnoun

    Action of the verb to sell.

ChatGPT

  1. selling

    Selling refers to the act or process of exchanging a product, service, or asset for money. It involves promoting or advertising a product or service, attracting and convincing potential buyers, and completing a transaction where money is exchanged for the ownership or use of the product or service. It is a fundamental part of business operations and commerce.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Selling

    of Sell

Wikidata

  1. Selling

    Selling is a village and civil parish south of Faversham and west of Canterbury in Kent, England.

Editors Contribution

  1. sellingverb

    Verb form of the word sell.

    The selling price was confirmed.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 4, 2020  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SELLING

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Selling is ranked #101247 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Selling surname appeared 178 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Selling.

    92.7% or 165 total occurrences were White.
    4.4% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'selling' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2554

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'selling' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1447

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'selling' in Nouns Frequency: #2641

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of selling in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of selling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of selling in a Sentence

  1. Koby Simana:

    We see more companies turning into businesses rather than selling their IP (intellectual property), it's a good sign and good news for Israel.

  2. Enrico Minniti:

    If you have a broad set of businesses with cross-selling potential then you can make local investment banking presence work, but if you are reliant on a couple of investment banking products, local presence can be costly.

  3. Adam Osborne:

    The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

  4. Jared Woodard:

    Over the next quarter or two we could start to see higher labor costs really eat into profits for some of these retailers, the biggest vulnerabilities are in stores that aren't selling high margin goods like discount apparel, T.J. Maxx, Ross Stores and others that really depend on volume and need high head count to get the job done.

  5. Jason Woosley:

    We've got a shorter holiday selling season, that's creating a compression effect.

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