sales pitch
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Noun
editsales pitch (plural sales pitches)
- Talk or demonstrations intended to persuade a consumer to make a purchase, especially when vigorously delivered or exaggerated.
- Hyponym: elevator pitch
- Coordinate term: banter
- 1947 May 19, “How Many Listeners?”, in Time:
- As far as he is concerned, it is just a huckster's sales pitch.
- 2007 September 13, Matthew Goldstein, “Did Bear Stearns Soft-Pedal the Risks?”, in BusinessWeek, retrieved 5 Oct. 2008:
- He was so convinced by the sales pitch that he put around $1 million of his own money into the funds.
Translations
editpresentation to persuade a customer
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editReferences
edit- “sales pitch”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.