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Skill in persuading people to buy
Answer for the clue "Skill in persuading people to buy ", 12 letters:
salesmanship
Alternative clues for the word salesmanship
Word definitions for salesmanship in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. skill in selling; skill in persuading people to buy; "he read a book on salesmanship but it didn't help"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The skills and knowledge of how to sell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1853, from salesman + -ship .\n\nThe modern system of salesmanship has become so much like persecution reduced to a science, that it is quite a luxury to be allowed the use of your own discretion, without being dragooned, by a shopkeeper's deputy, into ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Many stores spend too much on technology and too little on salesmanship and service. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But in her writing and speeches Shaughnessy did not dwell on this problem; perhaps that was a necessary part of ...
Usage examples of salesmanship.
For purposes of salesmanship, Yaney had reattired himself in smart and proper uniform, discarding the leather jacket and the fifty-mission crush.
Nevertheless, the existing manuscript, together with his own salesmanship, allowed Stanley to set up the deal with MGM and Cinerama, and "Journey Beyond the Stars" was announced with a flourish of trumpets.
It was adopted initially, out of many competing keyboard designs, for trivial specific reasons involving early typewriter construction in America in the 1860s, typewriter salesmanship, a decision in 1882 by a certain Ms.
Eminently useful in salesmanship, politics, group dynamics of all kinds, as well as personal relations.
Layne was like a child at Christmas and completely under Mike's magicianlike salesmanship.
For example, he suggested that operators begin their salesmanship immediately when the customer entered the building and then should be constantly alert to opportunities to sell additional products.
Because a certain shrewd New Yorker understood the true art of persuasion, which lies in convincing the gull, against all reason, that he can't afford not to buy - salesmanship, that's the ticket.