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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
salesmanship
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 salesmanship.
▪ Good salesmanship depends on a cool mind.
▪ He kept excellent written records, but his guidance on salesmanship was of less use than his colleague's.
▪ In the face of all the forces of modern salesmanship, it still rules, almost undefiled, in the textbooks.
▪ Mass production meant finding new methods of selling, and manufacturers like Ford encouraged high pressure salesmanship.
▪ Or producers may proceed actively to create wants through advertising and salesmanship.
▪ Plenty of room there for plucking new generations of consumers, as long as salesmanship remains legal.
▪ The essential discovery, now that everyone had heard of Freud, was that guilt could be harnessed to salesmanship.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
salesmanship

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 looking at what you do not care to see, or buying what you would not have. A man in his sane mind, with the usual organs of speech, has a right to be treated as if he knows what he wants, and is able to ask for it.

["The Literary World," Feb. 26, 1853]

Wiktionary
salesmanship

n. The skills and knowledge of how to sell.

WordNet
salesmanship

n. skill in selling; skill in persuading people to buy; "he read a book on salesmanship but it didn't help"

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.