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. |