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Sale

See 1st Sallow.

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Agreement 76% connected

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the mem…

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Marketing 76% connected

of Market

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Merchandising 76% connected

of Merchandise

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Occasion 76% connected

A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident.

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Selling 76% connected

of Sell

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Understanding 76% connected

of Understand

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Auction 76% connected

A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.

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Bazaar 76% connected

Alt. of Bazar

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Divestiture 76% connected

The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

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Fair 76% connected

Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.

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Realization 76% connected

The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.

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Sell 76% connected

Self.

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Vendue 76% connected

A public sale of anything, by outcry, to the highest bidder; an auction.

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Field noun · 78% connection

(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

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Dealing noun · 78% connection

the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities); "no transactions are possible without him"; "h…

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Dealings noun · 78% connection

the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities); "no transactions are possible without him"; "h…

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Relational database noun · 78% connection

a database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes; "in a relational database t…

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Transaction noun · 78% connection

the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities); "no transactions are possible without him"; "h…

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Bit field noun · 78% connection

a field containing only binary characters

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Affairs noun · 77% connection

transactions of professional or public interest; "news of current affairs"; "great affairs of state"

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Agiotage noun · 77% connection

speculative dealing in stock exchange securities or foreign exchange.

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Borrowing noun · 77% connection

obtaining funds from a lender

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Business deal noun · 77% connection

a particular instance of buying or selling; "it was a package deal"; "I had no further trade with him"; "he's a master of the business…

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Commerce noun · 77% connection

transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

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Commercialism noun · 77% connection

transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

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Deal noun · 77% connection

a particular instance of buying or selling; "it was a package deal"; "I had no further trade with him"; "he's a master of the business…

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Downtick noun · 77% connection

a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction

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Exchange noun · 77% connection

the act of giving something in return for something received; "deductible losses on sales or exchanges of property are allowable"

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Forward transaction noun · 77% connection

a transaction in which a party purchases or sales a given product, and agrees to deliver it at a specific future time.

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Mercantilism noun · 77% connection

transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

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Operations noun · 77% connection

financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records

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Adust adjective · 78% connection

Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.

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Sallow superl. · 78% connection

Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin.

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Sallowish adjective · 78% connection

Somewhat sallow.

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Sallowness noun · 78% connection

The quality or condition of being sallow.

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Wanness noun · 78% connection

The quality or state of being wan; a sallow, dead, pale color; paleness; pallor; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever.

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