noun
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An act of selling.
example
This is going to be a tough sell.
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An easy task.
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An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity.
verb
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(ditransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
example
I'll sell you all three for a hundred dollars.
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To be sold.
example
The corn sold for a good price.
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To promote a product or service.
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To promote a particular viewpoint.
example
My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.
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To betray for money.
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To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
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To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
Examples of sell in a Sentence
We didn't sell you the tripod.
I had a beautiful black once, but I had to sell it.
Maybe it was time to sell the farm.
They sell 'em. So what do they do with the Cheerios' holes?
Will you sell it?
How many did you sell? she asked.
In fact, I think Uncle Fabrice had him convinced that he couldn't sell a cheeseburger to a starving man.
I had to sell something to pay for the funeral.
I only sell woman's clothes, so you're out of luck!
But I have met with such bad luck that I am forced to sell them.
I don't want to sell the truck.
I wouldn't sell the ranch after you put so much money into it.
He put you on the streets, made her sell herself to keep clothes on your back.
I sell these things.
They need markets to sell goods in and stable currencies.
You sell it for a song.
I take things from my attic and my garage and sell them to people who value them more than I do.
They will be the hard sell.
They can't even put a value on it; they wouldn't sell it for a million dollars.
You cannot sell to someone the right to kill you or hold you prisoner.
We located where you were trying to sell it on eBay.
Of course, she doesn't want the farm either, so she'll sell that.
All he had to do was sell one of the original pieces of artwork displayed casually in the marble foyer and he'd be fine for years.
Possibly, I have certain pieces I won't sell to just anyone.
Sell this place to Katie, or lease it to her.
I'll release the locks, if you promise to take only what you need and not sell the rest, like the feds in Florida.
He had a right to their labour in return for their keep. He might hire them out and receive their wages, pledge them for debt, even sell them outright.
They also have a 30 days sell or return.
He still has his labor to sell and can go get a new job.
A creditor could hold his insolvent debtor as a slave, or sell him out of the city (trans Tiberim).
The decree required all farmers and corn-dealers to declare the quantity of corn in their possession and to sell it only in recognized markets.
A maximum price was fixed, above which no one was to buy or sell under severe penalties.
Should he desire to sell his estates, the right of pre-emption belonged to the tenants, or, in default, to the neighbours.
The cultivators, on the other hand, may not plant tobacco without permits from the regie, although the power of refusing a permit, except to known smugglers or persons of notoriously bad conduct, seems to be doubtful; nor may they sell to any purchaser, unless for export, except to the regie, while they are bound to deposit the whole of the tobacco crops which they raise in any one year in the entrepots of the regie before the month of August of the year following, [[Table A]].-Showing Revenues ceded to Ottoman Public Debt Administration at Various Periods to 1907-1908.
The principle upon which the government acts is to give the natives low prices for their produce, but to sell them European articles of necessity at prime cost, and other stores, such as bread, at prices which will scarcely pay for the purchase.
If you think "Western Medicine" is a business whose goal is to keep you sick to sell you medicines, you will tend to move away from genetically modified foods and favor organic.
With Fisk in August 1869 he began to buy gold in a daring attempt to "corner" the market, his hope being that, with the advance in price of gold, wheat would advance to such a price that western farmers would sell, and there would be a consequent great movement of breadstuffs from West to East, which would result in increased freight business for the Erie road.
To buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest; to secure cheapness by lowering the expenses of production; to adopt the less expensive rather than the more expensive method of obtaining a given result - these and other maxims are as old as human society.
The places to which colonies were to be sent were not specified (with the exception mentioned above), so that the commissioners would be able to sell wherever they pleased, and it was left to them to decide what was public or private property.
Originally, a father could sell his children.
Diocletian forbade a free man to sell himself.
They were not even adscripti glebae, though forbidden to migrate; an imperial ukase of 1721 says, " the proprietors sell their peasants and domestic servants, not even in families, but one by one, like cattle."
The first step was to decree the penalty of six years' imprisonment against any person who should sell specie for a more considerable quantity of assignats, or who should stipulate a different price for commodities according as the payment was to be made in specie or in assignats.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840, § 42, provides that no spiritual person may sell or assign any patronage or presentation belonging to him by virtue of any dignity or spiritual office held by him; such sale or assignment is null and void.
The landowner on whom the notice is served may meet it by agreeing to sell, and the terms may then be settled by consent of the parties themselves, or by arbitration, if they decide to have recourse to that mode of adjusting the difficulty.
Various reforms were carried, but the proposal to sell the Danish islands in the West Indies to the United States fell through.
The miller sturdily refused to sell it.
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Ready buyers were not found for the state lands, and the sale of the ex-sultan's securities was disputed by the German Reichsbank with which they were deposited, while the government did not consider it good policy to sell the Anatolian railway shares, which it seized at Yildiz, so that only £T450,000 were encashed by the ministry of finance from these sources.
Those whose physique and character were satisfactory, and who had taken care of their horses and equipments, were bidden to lead their horse on (traducere equum), those who failed to pass the scrutiny were ordered to sell it, in token of their expulsion from the corps.