point-of-sale

1. 1.

   of or relating to or being the location where something is purchased

Questions about point-of-sale

What does point-of-sale mean?

point-of-sale means "of or relating to or being the location where something is purchased".

How many syllables are in point-of-sale?

point-of-sale has 4 syllables and divides as poin-t-of--sa-le under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is point-of-sale a common word?

point-of-sale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.