COMMERCEa way ofsellinggoodsin which they are notsolddirectlytocustomers, but, forexample, to awholesaler(= acompanythatbuysgoodsinlargequantitiesfromproducersandsellsthem tostores):Thecompanywill useindirectchannels,ratherthanitsownsalesforce, tomarkettheproducts.(Definition ofindirect channelfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofindirect channel
indirect channelCommercial sales are made through anindirectchannel, which includes dealers and partners throughout the world.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In addition, we have introduced alternative measures of aggregate economic activity as theindirectchannel, x, through which y may impact on z .From theCambridge English CorpusThere are various direct and indirect channels through which transport infrastructure may affect security and peace building.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These are indirect channels through which poverty and the environment interact.From theCambridge English CorpusThey even intimated to him by indirect channels that his authority did not extend to the suppression of the order; but they were mistaken.FromProject GutenbergBesides, the funds necessary for this purpose would revert to the country by a thousand indirect channels.FromProject GutenbergThat would be a far simpler proposition than to try, through the indirect channels of profit, to assure the same results.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Our malignant feelings, which must seek gratification through more indirect channels, and undermine the obstacles which they cannot openly bear down, may be rather said to be tinctured sable.FromProject GutenbergIt may be that the farmer loses some of the profit which he ought to be receiving by the indirect channels through which his product gets to the consumer.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/indirect-channel##
