Meanings
plural points of sale
- businessThe location at which payment for goods is made in an establishment that sells goods or services.
Near-synonym: point of purchase
2 more examples
His trenchant criticisms of the Church's repression […] include a discussion of the considerable 1938 success of the fledgling NODL in getting magazines removed from various points of sale.
2011, Jay A. Gertzman, Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940Traditionally, 'ticket office' seems to have been the preferred term in America, with Britain using the term 'booking office' (as an 1881 edition of The Railway Age Monthly and Railway Service Magazine explains). Today, the two are often used interchangeably (as the recent 'Save our ticket offices' campaign shows), with the term 'ticketing' perhaps capturing more of the point-of-sale transaction and issuing of tickets within stations.
2024 March 6, Dr Joseph Brennan, “England's booking offices of distinction”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 56Synonyms: POS, point of service, point of purchase
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe location at which payment for goods is made in an establishment that sells goods or services.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 銷售點 /销售点
- 銷售點 /销售点 (xiāoshòudiǎn)location at which payment for goods is made
Finnish myyntipiste, kassa
- myyntipistelocation at which payment for goods is made
- kassalocation at which payment for goods is made
French point de vente, caisse
- point de ventelocation at which payment for goods is made
- caisselocation at which payment for goods is made
- point de venteestablishment that sells goods or services
German Kasse, Verkaufsplatz
- Kasselocation at which payment for goods is made
- Verkaufsplatzestablishment that sells goods or services
- Verkaufsortestablishment that sells goods or services
- Verkaufsstelleestablishment that sells goods or services
Hungarian árusítóhely, eladási hely
- árusítóhelylocation at which payment for goods is made
- eladási helylocation at which payment for goods is made
- eladás helyelocation at which payment for goods is made
- értékesítési pontlocation at which payment for goods is made
- vételi helylocation at which payment for goods is made
- kasszalocation at which payment for goods is made
- üzletestablishment that sells goods or services
Italian cassa
- cassalocation at which payment for goods is made
Polish kasa, punkt sprzedaży
- kasalocation at which payment for goods is made
- punkt sprzedażyestablishment that sells goods or services
Russian ка́сса
- ка́сса (kássa)location at which payment for goods is made
Spanish terminal punto de venta
- terminal punto de ventalocation at which payment for goods is made
Swedish kassa
- kassalocation at which payment for goods is made
Welsh pwynt talu
- pwynt talulocation at which payment for goods is made
Rhymes & wordplay
Sounds the same
Cite this entry
point of sale. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/point%20of%20sale
“point of sale.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/point%20of%20sale. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “point of sale,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/point%20of%20sale.
Source: point of sale on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.