- plural of sale.
sales
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of sales
First recorded in 1820–30, for the adjective
Explanation
When a company’s sales are down, it hasn’t been making money. The word sales refers to income. If a bathing suit company’s sales are low, it should stop making wool bikinis. Sales is also the plural of “sale.” If a jewelry maker is worried about sales during the year's slow months, he might offer a discount. And when a big company focuses too much on sales, they sometimes lose track of the other aspects of doing business. Stores have big sales. The job or activity of selling things is also known as sales, so you could have a sales job, or even a title like "Director of Sales" or "sales representative."
Example Sentences
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The crucial data-center segment, which includes most of the AI servers for which Nvidia is best-known, produced sales of $89 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
They have generated 278.5m euros from sales so far, with the departures of players including Savio, Tijjani Reijnders, Rodri, James Trafford, Manuel Akanji and Nathan Ake.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
For the quarter ended in July, Nvidia reported record sales of $96.2 billion, or 4% higher than the $92.3 billion analysts polled by FactSet had expected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Newcastle have reached 275.5m euros in sales with the bulk of that coming from three major departures.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Zalmay waved at him distractedly while talking with the sales assistant about the superiority of Myst over Civilization.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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