salesmanship

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The art or skill of selling products, services or ideas through persuasion and effective communication. countable,uncountable
    — […] this man worked at his business all the harder, with the brightness of the home-joys fading. But it went very hard with him, more than once, when he made a good stroke of salesmanship, to have to put the money in the bottom of his pocket, without even rubbing a bright half-crown, and saying to himself, “I have a’most a mind to give this to Mary.”
  2. A position as salesman. UK,countable,uncountable

词形变化

salesmanships plural

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词源

Etymology tree
English sales
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English salesman
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English salesmanship
From salesman + -ship.
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