hard sell

hard sell
noun
forceful and insistent advertising
• Hypernyms: ↑advertising, ↑publicizing

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noun
: aggressive high-pressure selling or salesmanship — often used with the

everyone had keyed himself up to the hard sell — Business Week

— compare soft sell

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a method of advertising or selling that is direct, forceful, and insistent; high-pressure salesmanship (opposed to soft sell).
[1950-55, Amer.]

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hard sell noun
An aggressive and insistent method of promoting, advertising or selling
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Main Entry: ↑hard

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hard sell UK US noun [singular]
a method of selling in which someone tries very hard to persuade customers to buy something
Thesaurus: advertising, marketing and prhyponym activity of sellinghyponym
See also: soft sell

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hard sell,
Informal.
1. forceful and aggressive sales techniques; high-pressure salesmanship: »

A company chairman…started a conference of big businessmen with a warning against overusing the hard sell (Observer).

2. a difficult task of persuasion.
hard-sell «HAHRD SEHL», verb, -sold, -sell|ing, adjective. Informal.
–v.t.
to sell with forceful and aggressive techniques.
–adj.
forceful and aggressive.
–hard´-sell´er, noun.

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n. a policy or technique of aggressive salesmanship or advertising

they invited 1,000 participants and gave them the hard sell

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noun [singular]
1 : an aggressive way of selling something
— usually used with the

He gives every customer the hard sell.

compare ↑soft sell
2 US : something that is difficult to sell : something that others are not willing or likely to accept

Such an expensive project will be a hard sell during these slow economic times.

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ˌhard ˈsell f10 [hard sell] noun singular
a method of selling that puts a lot of pressure on the customer to buy

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Their salesmen are trained to go for the hard sell.


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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