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selling point

noun

  1. a unique or advantageous feature that appeals to the prospective buyer of a service, product, etc.:

    A generous discount is the chief selling point of the book club.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of selling point1

First recorded in 1920–25

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Example Sentences

Variety taps Depardieu's "audacious performance [as] undeniably the pic's chief selling point."

Her sly, skewering banter and provocative cynicism were her defense in a male-dominated profession and also her selling point.

Oceanfront land is also the main selling point for Copper Beach Farm, the 50-acre property for sale in Greenwich, Conn.

For Virginia, which took the Top State title in 2007, 2009 and 2011, cost has never been its biggest selling point.

For Toronto sex-toy store Good for Her, organizers of the FPAs, far from it—it's a selling point.

The claim may be a good selling-point, but it cannot be, and is not, seriously taken by chemists.

He bought out small ranchers who were crowded to the selling point in one way or another.

Its selling point, in the past at least, has been the alleged presence of papain.

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