best-seller

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ˌbest-ˈsel·ler, bestseller /ˌbestˈselə $ -ər/ noun [countableC]

TCNa popular product, especially a book, that many people buy 畅销产品；畅销书

His new book went straight to number one on the best-seller list.

他的新书跃居畅销书榜首。

The game is already a bestseller in Japan.

这个游戏在日本已经很畅销。

—best-selling adjectiveadj [only before noun]

a best-selling author

畅销书作者

the UK’s best-selling album

英国的畅销专辑

Examples from the Corpus

best-seller• Already a best-seller in Japan, Quovis comes out in English later this year.• Jackson's has bought the rights, and Jackson's could make a Coptic dictionary into a best-seller if they tried.• It still a best-seller around the world.• Every year there's a toy that becomes a hard-to-find best-seller.• Her book has been an international best-seller for over a decade.• One section is stuffed full of reviewer's copies of the latest best-sellers.• Publishers of best-sellers have something to gain from discounting if volumes rise enough to make up for it.• I guess everyone at one time or another has read an enjoyable book and then daydreamed about writing his own best-seller.• Nader's book, Unsafe at Any Speed, became a surprise best-seller.• J K Rowling's 'Harry Potter' books were number one on the best-seller list for months.• He offers brand-new tomes from the New York Times best-seller list at exactly half off - with no tax to pay.

best-seller list• The survey indicates that best-seller lists are far less important to consumers than the allocation of media coverage to best-sellers would suggest.• The close link in Britain between television series and the best-seller lists is not reflected worldwide.• Coffee-table books rarely make the best-seller list.• A funny thing happened to Jane Mendelsohn on the way to the best-seller list.• The novel, published by Simon and Schuster, tops the best-seller list for paperbacks.• He offers brand-new tomes from the New York Times best-seller list at exactly half off - with no tax to pay.• The book, published last month, has been on the New York Times best-seller list for six weeks.

From Longman Business Dictionary

best sellerˌbest ˈseller, best-seller noun [countableC]MARKETING

a very popular book or other product, that many people buy

The book has been on the New York Times fiction best-seller list for more than 30 weeks.

The company’s best sellers are its biotechnology drugs.

—best-selling adjectiveadj [only before a noun]

America’s best-selling pickup truck

ˌbest-ˈsel·ler noun

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