multi-level marketing

English

Noun

multi-level marketing (uncountable)

1. A sales system under which the salesperson receives a commission on his or her own sales and a smaller commission on the sales from each person he or she convinces to become a salesperson.

Usage notes

Multi-level marketing is considered a legitimate business if the emphasis is primarily on the sale of products or service. See some of the terms below for details of illegal schemes that rely heavily on recruitment of new investors to make money.

Synonyms

• MLM
• network marketing
• pyramid selling
• referral marketing

Related terms

• direct selling

Translations

sales system

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳銷／传销 (zh) (chuánxiāo), 传销 (zh) (chuánxiāo)

• Finnish: verkostomarkkinointi
• Japanese: 連鎖販売取引 (rensa hanbai torihiki), マルチ商法 (maruchi shōhō)
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• Persian: بازاریابی چندسطحی (bâzâryâbi-ye čand-sathi)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: bán hàng đa cấp