Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
acates | (Obs.) things purchased; provisions not made in the house; dainties. |
adrate | the price or tariff that businesses pay to advertise. |
aftersales | after a sale has been completed, usually with reference to servicing the goods, installation, etc. |
airfare | the price of a journey on a plane. |
arbitrage | the exploitation of market imperfections to make a profit, eg by buying stocks and shares in one country or market and selling them in another; (verb) to exploit the market in this way. |
auction | to sell publicly to the highest bidder. |
auctionary | of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer. |
auctioneer | an agent who sells goods at auction; (verb) to sell by auction. |
autojumble | a jumble sale involving cars or car accessories. |
bargain | to discuss terms for selling or buying. |
bargainer | one who bargains. |
bargoon | (Canadian) a bargain. |
bestselling | selling in large numbers. |
boughten | (Arch.) purchased; not obtained or produced at home. |
boycott | to refuse to buy. |
buy | to purchase. |
buyable | that can be bought; (noun) something that can be bought. |
buyback | the optional or obligatory buying back by the seller of all or part of what was sold. |
buyer | one that buys. |
buyout | the buying out or taking over of another company. |
cashback | getting cash back on a credit card. |
chargeback | the charge a credit card merchant pays to a customer after the customer successfully disputes an item on his or her credit card statement. |
cheapie | (Coll.) something cheap. |
cheapish | somewhat cheap. |
cheapishly | (Adv.) CHEAPISH, somewhat cheap. |
cheapness | the state of being cheap. |
cheapo | (Coll.) something cheap. |
cheapy | (Coll.) something cheap. |
coempt | to buy up the entire supply of a product. |
coemption | the purchase of the entire supply of a commodity. |
comake | to serve as comaker for a loan. |
commerce | interchange of merchandise on a large scale between nations or individuals; (verb) to carry on trade. |
consumerism | the promotion of the consumer's interests. |
consumeristic | relating to consumerism. |
costliness | the state of being costly. |
costly | expensive. |
customer | one who buys something. |
demarket | to discourage consumers from buying a particular product. |
discount | to reduce the price of. |
emption | the act of buying, purchase. |
emptional | capable of being purchased. |
endcap | a display of products at the end of an aisle in a store. |
exorbitancy | the state of being exorbitant. |
exorbitant | going beyond the usual limits; (esp of prices) excessive. |
exorbitantly | (Adv.) EXORBITANT, excessive. |
expenditure | the act of expending. |
expensive | costing a lot of money. |
farthingsworth | as much as a farthing will buy. |
feeless | without a fee. |
forepayment | payment in advance. |
forfaiter | a person who, or company which, buys and sells debts arising from forfaiting. |
forfaiting | a method of export finance where debts on exported goods are bought and then sold on to banks etc. |
gazang | (Of the seller of a house) to inconvenience (a potential buyer) by withdrawing from an agreement to sell shortly before the purchase is completed. |
gazump | (Coll.) to unfairly acquire a property by bidding more than an offer that has already been accepted. |
haggle | to bargain. |
haggler | one who haggles. |
halfpennyworth | as much as is sold for a halfpenny or is worth a halfpenny. |
higgle | to hawk or peddle provisions. |
higgler | a salesperson who insists on a certain price. |
hirable | that can be hired. |
hirage | the fee for hiring something. |
hire | wages for service; (verb) to engage the services of for payment. |
hireable | that can be hired. |
hireage | the fee for hiring something. |
hirer | one who hires. |
homebuyer | one who is buying a home. |
hondle | to haggle. |
invendibility | the state of being invendible. |
invendible | not vendible or salable. |
investor | one that invests. |
lowball | to give a customer a deceptively low price. |
macromarketing | marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other. |
mancipation | (Hist.) legal transfer by actual or symbolic sale. |
mancipatory | relating to mancipation. |
marketable | that can be marketed. |
marketableness | the state of being marketable. |
marketably | (Adv.) MARKETABLE. |
marketise | to adopt a market economy. |
marketize | to adopt a market economy. |
merchandise | goods for sale; (verb) to buy and sell in business. |
merchandize | goods for sale; (verb) to buy and sell in business. |
missell | to sell an inappropriate financial product, eg a personal pension. |
niffer | (Scots) to barter, to haggle. |
noncustomer | one who is not a customer. |
oppignerate | (Obs.) to pawn. |
oppignorate | (Obs.) to pawn. |
outbargain | to surpass in bargaining. |
outbuy | to surpass in buying. |
outroop | (Obs.) an auction sale. |
outrooper | (Obs.) an auctioneer; the Common Crier of the City. |
outrope | (Obs.) an auction sale. |
outroper | (Obs.) an auctioneer; the Common Crier of the City. |
outsell | to sell more than. |
overbuy | to buy too much. |
overcharge | to charge too much. |
oversale | the act of overselling. |
oversell | to try to hard to sell. |
peddle | to travel about selling wares. |
permabear | an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will fall. |
permabull | an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise. |
prebuy | to buy in advance. |
preprice | to price in advance. |
prepurchase | to purchase in advance. |
presell | to sell in advance. |
price | the amount for which a thing is sold (verb) to set a value on |
pricey | expensive PRICILY. |
pricily | (Adv.) PRICY, expensive. |
priciness | the state of being pricy. |
pricy | expensive PRICILY. |
prodigalise | to spend lavishly, to waste. |
prodigalize | to spend lavishly, to waste. |
purchasability | the quality of being purchasable. |
purchasable | that can be purchased. |
purchase | something bought; (verb) to acquire by the payment of money. |
purchaser | one who purchases. |
purvey | to supply. |
purveyor | one that purveys. |
rakeoff | a percentage of takings. |
rebadge | to market a product under a new name. |
rebuy | to buy again. |
rediscount | to discount again. |
rediscountable | capable of being rediscounted. |
regrate | (Hist.) to buy and sell again in or near the same market. |
regrator | one who regrates, buys and sells in the same market. |
remainder | what is left over; (verb) to sell as a remainder. |
remarket | to market again. |
repurchase | to buy back or again. |
resalable | that can be resold. |
resale | the act of selling again. |
resaleable | that can be resold. |
resell | to sell again. |
reseller | one who resells. |
retail | to sell in small quantities. |
retailer | one that retails. |
retailment | the act of retailing. |
salability | the quality of being salable. |
salable | able to be sold. |
salableness | the quality of being salable. |
salably | (Adv.) SALABLE, able to be sold. |
sale | the act or an instance of selling. |
saleability | the quality of being saleable. |
saleable | able to be sold. |
saleably | (Adv.) SALEABLE, able to be sold. |
salesmanship | the skill or art of selling. |
sellable | able to be sold. |
seller | one that sells. |
selloff | the act of selling cheaply. |
subhastation | (Hist.) sale by public auction. |
sug | to attempt to sell a product while purporting to be engaged in market research. |
supersell | a sale in exceptional quantities; (verb) to sell in exceptional quantities. |
superseller | something that sells exceptionally well. |
telemarketing | the marketing of goods or services by telephone. |
teleshop | to buy goods by telephone or the Internet. |
teleshopping | buying goods by telephone or the Internet. |
troak | (Scots) to barter. |
trock | (Scots) to barter. |
troke | (Scots) to barter. |
underbuy | to buy at less than the real value or worth; to buy cheaper than. |
undercharge | to charge too little. |
underquote | to offer at a price lower than. |
undersell | to sell too cheap. |
underseller | one who undersells. |
underspend | to spend less than. |
unpurchased | not purchased. |
unsalable | that cannot be sold. |
unsalably | (Adv.) UNSALABLE, that cannot be sold. |
unsaleable | not saleable. |
unsaleably | (Adv.) UNSALEABLE, not saleable. |
unsellable | not sellable. |
unsold | not sold. |
unvendible | that cannot be sold. |
upscale | upmarket; (verb) to make appealing to affluent consumers. |
upsell | to attempt to persuade a customer to purchase more expensive items, upgrades, or other add-ons in an attempt to make a more profitable sale. |
vend | to sell. |
vendable | that can be vended; (noun) something that can be vended. |
vendee | the person to whom a thing is vended. |
vender | one who sells. |
vendibility | the state of being vendible. |
vendible | that can be vended (noun) something that can be vended |
vendibleness | the state of being vendible. |
vendibly | (Adv.) VENDIBLE, capable of being sold. |
vendition | a sale. |
vendor | one who sells. |
vendue | (Dutch) a public sale; an auction. |
voetstoets | (Afrikaans) denoting a sale in which the vendor is freed from all responsibility for the condition of the goods being sold. |
voetstoots | (Afrikaans) denoting a sale in which the vendor is freed from all responsibility for the condition of the goods being sold. |
voorskot | (Afrikaans) advance payment made to farmers for crops. |
wholesale | the sale of goods, usually by the whole piece or large quantity, to a retailer; (verb) to sell wholesale. |