salesmanship

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The art or skill of selling products, services or ideas through persuasion and effective communication.

   […] this man worked at his business all the harder, with the brightness of the home-joys fading. But it went very hard with him, more than once, when he made a good stroke of salesmanship, to have to put the money in the bottom of his pocket, without even rubbing a bright half-crown, and saying to himself, “I have a’most a mind to give this to Mary.”

2. 2
   noun

   skill in selling

3. 3
   noun

   A position as salesman.

Etymology

From salesman + -ship.