Sell

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  • intransitive verb. To exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent.
  • intransitive verb. To offer or have available for sale.
  • intransitive verb. To give up or surrender in exchange for a price or reward.
  • intransitive verb. To be purchased in (a certain quantity); achieve sales of.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To bring about or encourage sales of; promote.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to be accepted; advocate successfully.
  • intransitive verb. To persuade (another) to recognize the worth or desirability of something.
  • intransitive verb. To exchange ownership for money or its equivalent; engage in selling.
  • intransitive verb. To be sold or be on sale.
  • intransitive verb. To attract prospective buyers; be popular on the market.
  • intransitive verb. To be approved of; gain acceptance.
  • noun. An act or instance of selling.
  • noun. Something that sells or gains acceptance in a particular way.
  • noun. A deception; a hoax.
  • phrasal verb. To get rid of by selling, often at reduced prices.
  • phrasal verb. To sell all of a supply of something.
  • phrasal verb. To cause (someone) to have sold an entire supply of something.
  • phrasal verb. To be entirely sold.
  • phrasal verb. To betray one's principles or colleagues.
  • phrasal verb. To be purchased as a retail item by a customer.
  • idiom. (sell a bill of goods) To take unfair advantage of.
  • idiom. (sell down the river) To betray the trust or faith of.
  • idiom. (sell short) To contract for the sale of securities or commodities one expects to own at a later date and at more advantageous terms.
  • idiom. (sell short) To underestimate the true value or worth of.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An imposition; a cheat; a deception; a trick played at another's expense.
  • noun. An obsolete variant of sill.
  • noun. A middle English form of cell.
  • noun. A seat, especially an elevated or dignified one; a place of honor and dignity.
  • noun. A saddle.
  • noun. [Some commentators on Shakspere think that the passage in Macbeth, i. 7. 27.
  • noun. sould read, “Valting ambition, which o'erleaps its sell.”]
  • noun. A Scotch form of self.
  • To give; furnish.
  • To give over; give up; deliver.
  • To give up or make over to another for a consideration' transfer ownership or exclusive right of possession in (something) to another for an equivalent; dispose of for something else, especially for money: the correlative of buy, and usually distinguished from barter, in which one commodity is given for another.
  • To make a matter of bargain and sale; accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty or trust; take a bridge for; betray.
  • undefined
  • 5. To impose upon; cheat; deceive; disappoint.
  • To betray by secret bargains: as, the leaders sold out their candidate for governor.
  • To dispose of goods or property, usually for money.
  • To be in demand as an article of sale; find purchasers; be sold.
  • To dispose of all one's shares in a company, all of one's interest in a business, or all of one's stock as of a given commodity.
  • In stock-broking, to dispose in open exchange of shares contracted to be sold, but not paid for at the time specified for delivery, the original purchaser being required to make good the difference between the contract price and the price actually received.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Self.
  • noun. A sill.
  • noun. A cell; a house.
  • noun. A saddle for a horse.
  • noun. A throne or lofty seat.
  • intransitive verb. To practice selling commodities.
  • Word Usage
    "Fans know what sell: they write stories, make vids from clips, create drawings from those items already solid enough to *sell*."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    buy  
    cross-reference
    Equivalent
    out  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    be  cede  deliver  give up  persuade  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adel  Adele  Bel  Bell  Belle  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    sold  
    verb-form
    selling  sells  sold