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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

直接销售

Pronunciation / Transliteration: zhíjiē xiāoshòu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Direct-sales/dəˈrekt.seɪlz/
nounadjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这家公司主要通过直接销售来推广产品。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The marketing and selling of products directly to consumers away from a fixed retail location, typically through independent sales representatives.

    "She built a successful career in direct-sales by organizing product demonstrations for cosmetics."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to or denoting a business method where products are sold straight to the end consumer.

    "The company relies on a direct-sales model to bypass traditional wholesale intermediaries."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines the adjective 'direct' (from Latin directus, meaning straight or aligned) and the plural noun 'sale' (from Old English sélan, meaning to give or hand over). Emerging in the mid-20th century with the growth of consumer marketing and door-to-door distribution models, it evolved to describe commercial transactions taking place away from a fixed retail location.

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