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  • adjective superlative form of well-selling: most well-selling.
  • adjective In marketing, highly popular with consumers purchasing goods within a specific class.

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  • adjective selling in great numbers

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Examples

  • The Civic has held the title of best-selling passenger car in Canada for the past 13 years, a fact Honda highlights in its advertising for the car.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed GREG KEENAN 2011

  • Companies reporting Before the Market Open on Tuesday, December 13 Earnings Preview: Best Buy guides FY12 EPS $3.35-$3.65, revenue $51B-$52.5B U.S. online holiday spending approaches $25B for season, up 15% Amazon.com's tablet outselling iPad at Best Buy, Cnet reports Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle Fire tablet is identified as the best-selling tablet on Best Buy's website, beating out Apple's (AAPL) iPad, according to Cnet.

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  • The battle for the title of best-selling passenger car in Canada is the fiercest it has been in more than a decade as

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed GREG KEENAN 2011

  • When 2011 ended, the Civic had retained the title of best-selling passenger car in Canada.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JEREMY CATO 2012

  • Or think of Dave Eggers, who called his best-selling memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius."

    Insight By Surprise Andrew Stark 2011

  • Talking heads in the film include Deepak Chopra, Akiva Goldsman, Tony Hawk, Mick Fleetwood and lesser-known names, including quite a few identified as "best-selling author."

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Chronicl waddiego@sfchronicle.com (Walter Addiego 2011

  • Herberg undoubtedly overstated his case, as there were many other reasons for the heightened religiosity of the 1950s, but we nonetheless find it revealing that a best-selling author would look out at the religious bull market and conclude that ethnicity was behind the boom.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • By the end of the eighteenth century, this strategy made Wedgwood the best-selling pottery line on both sides of the Atlantic.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • PepsiCo's Aquafina, the nation's best-selling brand of bottled water, is launching the Eco-Fina Bottle, the lightest half-liter bottle of any nationally distributed bottled water brand in the market.

    Aquafina Lauches new Eco-Fina Bottle 2009

  • One must pity best-selling American thriller writer Jeffery Deaver, the latest officially sanctioned Fleming impersonator, who confidently declared that it would be "relatively easy" to inhabit the role of Bond—after all, he had previously "written about young African-American characters in America . . . about elderly characters . . . and from the points of view of women."

    You Only Live About 23 Times Michael C. Moynihan 2011

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