sales-pitch

present singular third person sales-pitches · participle present sales-pitching · participle past sales-pitched · past sales-pitched

1. informaltransitiveuncommonTo explain or promote a product, service or idea in a persuasive way, usually to a potential buyer or client.

   Late that night I lay in a kind of stupor, listening absently while the new mother in the next bed sales-pitched the Tupperware she sold for a living.

   1991, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, The Crown of Columbus, page 91

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   Even an Afro-Saxon Jamaica turns to the ill-advised notion of Discovery (by Columbus, that is) to exploit a few ruins at New Seville to attract tourists to its albeit vestigial Hispanic heritage, and the Winter (sic) 1988/89 in-flight magazine (BWIA Sunjet) on every BWIA aircraft carries an article sales-pitching the "French connection" of St Lucia which the writer says will proudly "participate in the bi-centenary celebrations of the 1789 French Revolution.

   1989, Extra Mural Department of the University College of the West Indies (contributor), Caribbean Quarterly, volume 35, page 5

   In the midst of this atmosphere, Will Messerschmitt energetically sales-pitched the concept and won a contract based on design estimates ten months before the prototype's first flight, followed by a production order for a thousand units while the prototypes were still under trial.

   1995 October 11, Andy Zsinko, “Messerschmitt 410-good or bad?”, in rec.aviation.military (Usenet)

   Back in the days when journalists actually worked to uncover things of real significance instead of sales pitching the glamour of Brad Pitt's hair styles or the agony experienced by an evicted Big Brother contestant, women such as Ida

   2006, James Polk, The Triumph of Ignorance and Bliss, Pathologies of Public America, page 158