Sales vs. Distribution

Sales vs. Distribution — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Sales and Distribution

Salesnoun

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.

Distributionnoun

An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

Salesnoun

The amount or value of goods and services sold.

Sales were up 12% over last year.

Distributionnoun

An apportionment by law (of funds, property).

Salesnoun

income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time

Distributionnoun

The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.

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Distributionnoun

The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.

Distributionnoun

Anything distributed; portion; share.

Distributionnoun

The result of distributing; arrangement.

Distributionnoun

A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.

Distributionnoun

(computing) A set of bundled software components; distro.

Distributionnoun

(economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.

The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
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Distributionnoun

(finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.

Distributionnoun

(logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.

Distributionnoun

The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.

Distributionnoun

(steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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.

Distributionnoun

(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.

Distributionnoun

(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

Distributionnoun

the spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume

Distributionnoun

the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning

Distributionnoun

the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer