direct selling
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The company calculated what it stood to gain through direct selling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
The retailer has already announced that its original direct selling network, The Body Shop at Home, which operated for 30 years, will close this month.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024
“The terms of the settlement in no way change our business model as a direct selling company but simply build upon current procedures,” Johnson said in a message to distributors posted on Herbalife’s website.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2016
The Direct Selling Association, the lobbying arm of the multilevel marketing industry, claims 18.2 million Americans—about 5 percent of the population—were “involved” in direct selling last year, generating $34.5 billion in sales.
From Slate • Oct. 11, 2015
No more canvassing with a pump undignifiedly on my back, no more manual labor; no, bold as the thought was, not even any more direct selling for me.
From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward
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