sales division
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- noun
- /seɪlz dɪˈvɪʒən/
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división de ventas
- After several months of futile and frustrated efforts, the project was reassigned to Peter Randolph, another middle manager within the sales division.
- sales division of the company
Examples
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-Ed Stapleton, the man that sent the chair, offered me a job with his company in the sales division.
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The sales division is responsible for generating revenue by selling the company's products.
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However, responsibility for the project was initially assigned to Carol Lund, a middle manager in the sales division of the company.
Academic text (1990) -
She works in the sales division, where she focuses on building relationships with clients.
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The company decided to enhance its sales division by adding new positions to improve outreach.
Synonyms
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A group of company employees who sell its products or services
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People who work for a company and sell its products or services
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The part of a company that sells products or services
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'sales' (activities or revenue from selling) modifies 'division' (a department), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes the department responsible for selling. This noun–noun combination follows a common and cross-linguistically familiar pattern (department of X), so it is immediately understandable from its parts.
Etymology
Sales division comes from the image of a company split into parts, with sales meaning selling and division meaning a separate team, so it names the part of a company whose job is 'to sell products or services'.