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DIRECT SALE

Specialty Definition: DIRECT SALE

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

A sale of felled trees. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: DIRECT SALE

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DIRECT SALE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: DIRECT SALE

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

   

Portuguese

  

venda de árvores abatidas (felled sale, sale at stump), venda após abate (felled sale, sale at stump). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

venta a pie del tocón (felled sale, sale at stump). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DIRECT SALE

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.

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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