aftermarket
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opportunities to sell other things related to a product that has already been sold, for example opportunities to sell parts and services for a car
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opportunities to sell other things related to a product that has already been sold, for example opportunities to sell parts and services for a car
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a situation in which there is more of a product available than there are people who want to buy it, so prices are low and people who want to buy have an advantage
to count and check all the money that a shop has received in a day
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a measurement of how often new customers try a product or service and then stop using it
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financial information about someone that a bank or shop uses for deciding whether to lend them money or to give them credit
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the activity of selling a new product which goes with another product that a customer has already bought
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the activity of looking after customers, and helping them with any complaints or problems
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if a shop exchanges something that you bought there, it allows you to change it for something of a similar type or value, for example because it is damaged
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a small extra amount of money in coins and notes, kept by a shop so that customers can be given change when they buy something
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a formal agreement for someone to sell a company’s products or services in a particular place, in exchange for a payment or part of the profits
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the business of secretly buying and selling goods in a way that is not illegal but that is considered morally wrong
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an agreement that if something that you buy does not work, it will be repaired or replaced, or you can have your money back
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a method of selling in which someone tries very hard to persuade customers to buy something
if a shop has something in, it is available in the shop for you to buy
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the business of arranging and showing products in shops in a way that makes people want to buy them
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a promise by a shop or company to give you back your money if you are not satisfied with something that you bought
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if a famous person opens a shop or public building, they appear there to say that it is officially available for people to use or visit
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an illegal pyramid selling plan which uses money from people who have just invested to pay people who have already invested, instead of using real profit to pay them
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a system of selling things in which someone buys a large supply of goods and sells them in smaller amounts to other people, who then sell them to others in even smaller amounts
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a group of products of the same type that a particular company makes or that a particular shop sells
verb
if a company recalls a product, it asks people who bought it to return it because there is something wrong with it
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an occasion when a company asks people to return a product because there is something wrong with it
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an agreement in which someone who has sold something agrees to buy it back at the end of a fixed period
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the sale of goods directly to the public for their own use. The sale of goods in large quantities to shop owners is called wholesale
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the total number of things that a company sells within a particular period of time, or the money that it earns by selling things
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the sale of something that the person selling it immediately rents back from the person who buys it, in order to get money from the sale and get a reduction in tax
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the statements and promises that someone makes in an attempt to persuade someone else to buy something
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a situation in which there are more people wanting to buy a product than the amount of the product that is available, so that prices are high and people selling the product have an advantage
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the amount of time that a food, medicine, or similar product can be kept in a shop before it is too old to sell
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a small piece of paper that some shops give to customers to collect and use later to buy things in the shop
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the value of the goods and services that a company sells in a particular period of time
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a date printed on something you buy that shows that it may be less safe to eat or less effective after this date. The date by which a product should be sold is called a sell-by date.
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unique selling proposition, or unique selling point: the thing that makes a product or service special or different from others
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a company’s written promise to repair or replace a product that you buy from them if it breaks or does not work, usually for a specific period of time after you buy it
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the business of buying and selling large quantities of goods, especially in order to sell them in a shop
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the job of arranging goods in shop windows, in order to make them look attractive
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something that is in hock has been sold to a pawnbroker (=someone who gives money in exchange for objects)
to stop selling a product, especially because it is not considered to be safe
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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