Word Finder - selling

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(ditransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.

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I'll sell you all three for a hundred dollars.

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To be sold.

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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.

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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.

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Action of the verb to sell.

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buyings and sellings

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Skill at salesmanship.

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You've got to work on your selling.

I wasn't thinking of selling it.

Without selling the farm, she had no money.

While we kidded about selling Howie out for a million buck reward, the increased outside interest in our activities was a serious matter.

Yet he was arrested last week for selling drugs to kids like little Nicholas over there?

The owner is selling it because he bought a truck.

I actually considered selling the ranch.

You can make all the fun you want about that stuff, but I'm still working on selling it.

Selling his Baltimore works, he built, in 1836, in partnership with his brother Thomas, a rolling mill in New York; in 1845 he removed it to Trenton, New Jersey, where iron structural beams were first made in 1854 and the Bessemer process first tried in America in 1856; and at Philippsburg, New Jersey, he built the largest blast furnace in the country at that time.

What if you get a new job someday and stop selling drugs?

He.d thought he crossed the only line that mattered by selling out the Immortals but found there was another he wasn.t ready for.

This Gruber fellow tossed me out of the house like a Fuller Brush Jehovah Witness selling life insurance.

His powers of organization were strongly exhibited in the Pastors' College, the Orphanage (at Stockwell), the Tabernacle Almshouses, the Colportage Association for selling religious books, and the gratuitous book fund which grew up under his care.

In selling my goods, is it enough not to disguise their shortcomings, or ought I candidly to admit them?

It was a singular experience that long acquaintance which I cultivated with beans, what with planting, and hoeing, and harvesting, and threshing, and picking over and selling them--the last was the hardest of all--I might add eating, for I did taste.

Closest relative was a sister who finally got around to selling the property in '55.

Cynthia had volunteered a couple of hours selling tickets for the Ouray Chamber's Jeep raffle.

Look, if it said they were moving to the south, I'd know they were selling their winter stuff.

My own flesh and blood, selling herself to half-drunk miners for a few gold coins.

Worse—she's selling it to someone she knows is scum!

She made her living selling her art and guest lecturing at colleges.

I thought about selling him, but sometimes he's the only one I have to talk to.

It had nothing to do with Charlie illicitly selling PMF weapons overseas.

Except for buying and selling a couple of vehi­cles and getting here he's had nothing to do but train.

How can he establish authenticity selling health products while he's smoking those things?

I can't bear the thought of selling it, and I can't afford to park it, buy another one and pay insurance on both.

The death penalty was freely awarded for theft and other crimes regarded as coming under that head; for theft involving entrance of palace or temple treasury, for illegal purchase from minor or slave, for selling stolen goods or receiving the same, for common theft in the open (in default of multiple restoration) or receiving the same, for false claim to goods, for kidnapping, for assisting or harbouring fugitive slaves, for detaining or appropriating same, for brigandage, for fraudulent sale of drink, for disorderly conduct of tavern, for delegation of personal service, for misappropriating the levy, for oppression of feudal holders, for causing death of a householder by bad building.

The buying and selling was at that period conducted by young children.

As early as the second half of the 17th century the Dutch East India Company began the practice of selling portions of the land to private persons, and of granting other portions as the reward of good services.

Personal tithes, if not commuted or otherwise still payable, are regulated by a statute of Edward VI., which (except in the case of fishing and tithes for houses in cities and towns, which may be due by custom) restricted them to such persons exercising merchandises, bargaining and selling clothing, handicraft or other art or faculty in such places as had for forty years previously so used to do.

The reason is the enormous proportion of the retail selling price which is exacted by the government by way of duty.

He later introduced a bill regarding slavery in the District of Columbia, which (in accordance with his statement of 1837) was to be submitted to the vote of the District for approval, and which provided for compensated emancipation, forbade the bringing of slaves into the District of Columbia, except by government officials from slave states, and the selling of slaves away from the District, and arranged for the emancipation after a period of apprenticeship of all slave children born after the 1st of January 1850.

The efforts of the administration to better the condition of the natives without undue interference with customary law met with encouraging results, and the submission of the Aros to the government in 1902 brought to an end the system of tribal warfare for the purpose of making slaves, while the enforcement of a proclamation of 1901 prohibiting the buying, pawning or selling of slaves had a salutary effect.

Trade and Money.There is little evidence to show how buying and selling were carried on in ancient Egypt.

The selling value of land has shown a decrease in modern times on account of the agricultural depression.

It fell to the ground for want of adequate support; but another proposition, the fruit of secret discussion between the king and his confederates, which placed all fiefs under the control of the crown as regards taxation, and p rovided for selling and letting them to the highest bidder, was accepted by the Estate of burgesses.

He opposed Grant's Santo Domingo policy - after Fessenden's death Schurz was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, - his Southern policy, and the government's selling arms and making cartridges for the French army in the Franco-Prussian War.

In a petition presented to the privy council in 1684, complaining of the severe treatment of Scotsmen selling linen in England, it was stated that 12,000 persons were engaged in the manufacture.

Had they been the selfish misers they are sometimes painted, they could have realized a fortune by selling its contents.

The practice of offering, selling and buying Indulgences (see Indulgence) was everywhere common in the beginning of the 16th century.

Buying and selling in their aspects most characteristic of India are to be seen, not at these great towns, nor even at the weekly markets, but at the fairs which are held periodically at certain spots in most districts.

Meanwhile the council at Calcutta had twice found the opportunity they desired of selling the government of Bengal to a new nawab.

In the case of the annexation of the territories of the Transvaal republic and Orange Free State, a rather complicated situation arose out of the facts, on the one hand, that the ceding states closed their own existence and left no recourse to third parties against the previous ruling authority, and, on the other, that, having no means owing to the de facto British occupation, of raising money by taxation, the dispossessed governments raised money by selling certain securities, more especially a large holding of shares in the South African Railway Company, to neutral purchasers.

Penal codes depended rather upon shorter and more cruel methods; the scaffold was in constant use, with all manner of physical pain, torture before and after sentence, shameful exposure, hideous mutilation, exile, selling into bondage as slaves.

Khalid lived on a very rich scale and was extraordinarily liberal, and he was charged with having carried out all his improvements for his own interests, and upbraided for selling the corn of his estates only when the prices were high.

Crescent (1848-1849); afterwards he passed his time carpentering, building and selling small houses in Brooklyn (1851-1854) in the meanwhile writing for the magazines and reviews and turning out several novels, and finally revolving in his mind the scheme of his Leaves of Grass.

At the beginning of the 14th century Sir Alexander Percy claimed the hereditary right of buying and selling in Whitby without payment of toll.

In his treatment of slaves he was exacting, but not harsh, and was averse to selling them save in case of necessity.

The city is a jobbing centre and wholesale market for a considerable area in southern Virginia and northern North Carolina, and is probably the largest loose-leaf tobacco market in the country, selling about 40,000,000 lb annually.

There are also special corporation taxes on car companies, express companies and foreign corporations producing, refining or selling petroleum or coal oil; and a system of licence-charges or business taxes.

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