Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

point of sale

English answer:

location//site where trial will take place

Added to glossary by Lydia De Jorge
Mar 19, 2020 14:43
4 yrs ago
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English term

point of sale

Non-PRO English Bus/Financial Business/Commerce (general) point of sale
If you have any questions either during the initial sign up stage or would like us to walk them through at the point of sale would be happy to do so.

It is about participating in research trial. What do you think "point of sale" should be replaced by? Because it seems not really relevant to study trial.

Thanks in advance,
Change log

Mar 19, 2020 14:46: writeaway changed "Field" from "Other" to "Bus/Financial"

Mar 31, 2020 16:08: Lydia De Jorge changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/2126150">S.J's</a> old entry - "point of sale"" to ""location//site where trial will take place""

Discussion

S.J (asker) Mar 20, 2020:
Thank you all for your efforts.
S.J (asker) Mar 19, 2020:
To be honest, I don't know much, what I know it is clinical trial.
philgoddard Mar 19, 2020:
Just out of interest What kind of trial is this, and who are the participants?
S.J (asker) Mar 19, 2020:
Can we say "in the office" for example?
Tony M Mar 19, 2020:
@ Asker As usual, without knowing properly what the wider context is, it is rather difficult for the rest of us to understand what is actually going on here.
However, I believe that here it is not 'point-of-sale' as in the retailing context, but rather 'at the moment of sale' — i.e. a 'point' in time. Though of course, it may not actually literally be a 'moment', which is possibly why the writer rather misguidedly used 'point" instead!

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location//site where trial will take place

Given the poor English and the limited context, I can only guess.
Peer comment(s):

agree mike23 : Yes, it's probably the location/place where the trial will be conducted.
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POS system point-of-sale system allows customers to pay for goods and services

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during the trial

The text has been written by someone with a poor command of English, and there are several mistakes in this one sentence. But this is my educated guess as to what they mean.
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at the point when a person is to decide whether to sign up for participation in the trial or not.

self-explanatory
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