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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

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