What does selling mean?
Definitions for selling
sell·ing
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word selling.
Princeton's WordNet
selling, merchandising, marketingnoun
the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money
Wiktionary
sellingnoun
Action of the verb to sell.
ChatGPT
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
Selling
of Sell
Wikidata
Selling
Selling is a village and civil parish south of Faversham and west of Canterbury in Kent, England.
Editors Contribution
sellingverb
Verb form of the word sell.
The selling price was confirmed.
Submitted by MaryC on March 4, 2020
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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.
Matched Categories
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'selling' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2554
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'selling' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1447
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'selling' in Nouns Frequency: #2641
Usage in printed sourcesFrom:
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of selling in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of selling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of selling in a Sentence
We see more companies turning into businesses rather than selling their IP (intellectual property), it's a good sign and good news for Israel.
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.
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
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.
We've got a shorter holiday selling season, that's creating a compression effect.
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