point of sale

point of sale

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɔɪnt əv ˈseɪl/
• Homophone: point of sail

Noun

point of sale (plural points of sale)

1. In an establishment that sells goods or services, the location at which payment for goods is made.
   • 2011, Jay A. Gertzman, Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940

     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.

Related terms

• salespoint

Translations

location at which payment for goods is made

Chinese: Mandarin: 銷售點／销售点 (zh) (xiāoshòudiǎn) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: myyntipiste (fi), kassa (fi) French: point de vente (fr) m, caisse (fr) f German: Kasse (de) f Hungarian: (formal) árusítóhely (hu), eladási hely, eladás helye, értékesítési pont, vételi hely, (informal) kassza (hu) Italian: cassa (it) f Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Russian: ка́сса (ru) f (kássa) Spanish: terminal punto de venta m Swedish: kassa (sv) c Welsh: pwynt talu m

establishment that sells goods or services

German: Verkaufsplatz m, Verkaufsort m, Verkaufsstelle f Hungarian: (shop/store) üzlet (hu)

See also

• cash on the barrelhead
• cash register
• cash wrap
• checkout
• check-out counter
• checkstand
• point of service
• POS

 

Further reading

• “point of sale” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• “point of sale”, in Collins English Dictionary.