英和和英

名詞

salesmanship (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 salesmanships)

1. The skills and knowledge of how to sell.

   The professional dealer's salesmanship was incredible, I was just looking but he managed to convince me to buy three times what I was considering buying over the next six months.

   • 1880, R. D. Blackmore, Mary Anerley, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Volume 2, Chapter 9, p. 162,^[1]

     […] 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.”

   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 1, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, OCLC 844076792:

     Babbitt’s spectacles had huge, circular, frameless lenses of the very best glass; the ear-pieces were thin bars of gold. In them he was the modern business man; one who gave orders to clerks and drove a car and played occasional golf and was scholarly in regard to Salesmanship.

   • 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 85:

     High-pressure salesmanship on the part of the Electro-Motive subsidiary of the General Motors Corporation, which has built by far the largest proportion of the American diesels to date, there certainly has been - to such an extent, indeed, as to compel the old-established builders of steam locomotives, such as Baldwins, the American Locomotive Company and the Lima Locomotive Company, either to follow suit or go out of the locomotive building business altogether - [...].