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| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A sale of felled trees. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Milk that is less than Grade A is not pasteurized for direct sale as milk. Thus, irradiation of food is an important additional step for added safety in the whole farm-to-table continuum of food safety measures. (references) | |
Business | Heavy dominance by a limited number of large manufacturers has been sustained because of their large direct sale networks, which has been key to the success of health food suppliers in Korea. (references) | |
About two-thirds of e-commerce consists of business-to-business transactions, and that share is expected to grow. The direct sale to customers, the business-to-customer transactions, are not yet so developed due to problems with payment. (references) | ||
Economic History | Thailand | Direct sale of general product 40% max. (references) |
Bulgaria | Avon and the Swedish company Oriflame report success in the direct sale of cosmetics. (references) | |
Switzerland | The direct sale of clothing items has by and large failed due to the modest margins and the huge variety of products. (references) | |
Political Economy | SOUTH AFRICA | The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (TCA) gave the telecommunications parastatal Telkom a monopoly over the provision of voice communication lines and the direct sale of infrastructure (including "last mile" services) to end users. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
direct sale home party | 16 |
cosmetic direct sale | 14 |
home party plan direct sale | 13 |
direct sale | 5 |
direct sale business | 4 |
factory direct sale | 3 |
direct sale party plan | 2 |
direct sale company | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DIRECT SALE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | salg af skovede,ikke udslæbte træer (felled sale, sale at stump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | vente après abattage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Nachverkauf (felled sale, sale at stump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ώληση μετά την υλοτομία (felled sale, sale at stump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | vendita di piante atterrate (felled sale, sale at stump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 元売り (direct sale by the producer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | もとうり (direct sale by the producer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | irectday alesay venda de árvores abatidas (felled sale, sale at stump), venda após abate (felled sale, sale at stump). (various references) venta a pie del tocón (felled sale, sale at stump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cartelised, decaliters. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-l-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cartelise, decaliter, decretals, delicates, derelicts, detailers, elaterids, lacertids. | |
-2 letters: acridest, articled, articles, ateliers, citadels, clearest, deciares, declares, decretal, decrials, delicate, derelict, desalter, desertic, detailer, dialects, dilaters, discreet, discrete, earliest, elaterid, lacertid, lardiest, leadiest, leariest, radicels, radicles, readiest, realised, realties, recitals, redtails, relisted, resailed, rescaled, reslated, retailed, reticles, sclereid, sclerite, seriated, sidereal, steadier. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-l-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: centralised, credentials. | |
+2 letters: reduplicates. | |
+3 letters: considerately, coresidential, credentialism, decelerations, decentralizes, dechlorinates, discreditable, reconsolidate, valedictories. | |
+4 letters: candlelighters, credentialisms, creditableness, disrespectable, overidealistic, reconsolidated, reconsolidates, recrystallized, rediscountable, tetrachlorides, unpredictables, veridicalities. | |
+5 letters: adrenalectomies, creditabilities, dichloroethanes, electrodialyses, electrodialysis, electrodynamics, inconsiderately, straitlacedness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Quotations: Non-fiction 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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