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Definition of Hard sell
1. Noun. Forceful and insistent advertising.
Definition of Hard sell
1. Noun. A sales technique of pressuring the potential buyer to agree to a purchase. ¹
2. Noun. A sales transaction which is challenging for the sales person to make; any act or object of persuasion which is challenging. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard Sell
Literary usage of Hard sell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Information Technology: An Audit Guide for Assessing Acquisition Risks (1994)
"When I was granted permission to hold a field hearing here today of the Education
and the Workforce Committee, it wasn'ta very hard sell, and the reason it ..."
2. Field Hearing on What Congress Can Learn from Successful State Education edited by Matt Salmon (2000)
"When I was granted permission to hold a field hearing here today of the Education
and the Workforce Committee, it wasn'ta very hard sell, and the reason it ..."
3. Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel: With Supplementary Extracts from the by John Earle, Charles Plummer (1892)
"... adj. laborious, hard, sell. 626 E. 1093. p.sg. gesealde. 855 A. 1095 p. 235!.
648 E. ge- salde. ..."
4. Solving Crime Problems in Residential Neighborhoods: Comprehensive Changes by Judith D. Feins (1997)
"... the problem (a hard sell after the security scandal): "Community policing
creates an atmosphere of communication and respect; you don't treat residents ..."
5. French Perceptions of the Early American Republic, 1783-1793 by Peter P. Hill (1988)
"They seemed not to realize that to retain those sympathies (which at first ran
strongly in their favor) would require the sort of "hard sell" public ..."
6. Politics of Compromise: NATO and AWACS by Arnold L. Tessmer (1995)
"Grumbling about America's "hard sell" tactics lingered long after the campaign
had ended. Consider first the two clear successes in Canada and the ..."
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