Sales vs. Distribution

Sales and Distribution Definitions
Sales
The exchange of goods or services for an amount of money or its equivalent; the act of selling
The sale of such a nice house should be easy.
Distribution
The process of marketing and supplying goods, especially to retailers.
Sales
A selling of property to the highest bidder; an auction.
Distribution
(Law) The transmission of inherited property to its heirs after taxes, debts, and costs of the estate have been paid.
Sales
An offer or arrangement in which goods are sold at a discount
The store has a sale on winter coats.
Distribution
Something distributed; an allotment
Distributions from a retirement account.
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Sales
The business or activity of selling goods or services
She works in sales.
Distribution
The geographic occurrence or range of an organism.
Sales
The number of items sold or the amount of money received for a number of items sold
Sales are better than expected.
Distribution
The geographic occurrence or range of a custom, usage, or other feature.
Sales
Plural of sale
Distribution
(Statistics) A characterization of the occurrence of the actual unique values in a set of data (as in a frequency distribution) or of the theoretical unique values of a random variable (as in a probability distribution).
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Sales
The activities involved in selling goods or services.
He's likable and motivated: perfect for a career in sales.
We have a sales training program beginning this Monday.
Distribution
(Mathematics) A generalized function used in the study of partial differential equations.
Sales
The amount or value of goods and services sold.
Sales were up 12% over last year.
Distribution
An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
Sales
Income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time
Distribution
An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
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Distribution
The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
Distribution
Anything distributed; portion; share.
Distribution
The result of distributing; arrangement.
Distribution
The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
The distribution of my little rock magazine is about 3,000.
Distribution
The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
Distribution
(economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
Distribution
(card games) The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
The declarer had 3-6-2-2 distribution.
Distribution
A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval. Category:en:Functions
Distribution
A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.
Distribution
(software) A set of bundled software components
A Linux distribution
Distribution
(finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
Distribution
(logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.
Distribution
The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
Distribution
(steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
Distribution
(rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.
Distribution
The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.
The phenomena of geological distribution are exactly analogous to those of geography.
Distribution
Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.
Distribution
That which is distributed.
Distribution
A resolving a whole into its parts.
Distribution
The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
Distribution
The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
Distribution
(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
Distribution
The spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume
Distribution
The act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
Distribution
The commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer