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.
noun
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A seat or stool.
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A saddle.
noun
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A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope).
example
He picked up the sell from the straw-strewn barn-floor, snelly sneaked up behind her and sleekly slung it around her swire while scryingː "dee, dee ye fooking quhoreǃ".
Examples of sells in a Sentence
All water is metered and sells for 40 cents per thousand cub.
Usually the manufacturer sells either directly or through an agent to a merchant who sells again to the shopkeeper, but the last twenty or thirty years have seen a considerable development of more direct dealing.
To be successful, Coca-Cola sells more coke, Corus more steel.
Moore's Farm Toys - Manufactures and sells fine farm equipment collectibles.
It now sells branded cookware on-line via its website.
There is a Cafe on the lakeside which sells traditional crepes.
Who sells best, a linguist with no selling skills, or a sales manager who has acquired some foreign language?
Now the man who sells these plants, has a pet shop too.
The rubber, if of good quality, sells at prices only slightly inferior to that of Para.
He also makes Kingston Black cider and sells bottled ciders.
A pioneer in electronic retailing, the company also sells products through its website and mail-order catalogs.
The smaller company exchanges its stock for stock of the larger system on an agreed basis, or sells it outright, and the bondholders of the absorbed line often have a similar opportunity to exchange their securities for obligations cf the parent company, which are on a stronger basis or have a broader market.
The state maintained, however, that the proprietor who exploits and sells the produce of his land is not engaging in commerce.
The advertising creates a visceral sensation of fear for which reason it also sells well.
Sierra Rica, based near ancient, organic chestnut woods in southern Spain, sells cooked and peeled chestnuts in jars.
Our website sells computer dell support technical by ibm support technical.
The Co-operative store also includes a drapery, hardware and grocery department, which even sells branded names that have been long forgotten.
Today the livestock market has moved from the town center, although a new covered market sells foodstuffs and general produce.
Due to high winds last year I lost many of my species fuchsias and am unable to find a supplier who sells species fuchsias.
She sells meat, wool and woolen garments to her own circle of customers and at farmers ' markets.
Sorry, that was a Gypsy girl who always sells me some lucky heather.
Federal pay raise doesn't always take sells auto homeowners.
The Village Students ' Shop sells a full range of groceries and foodstuffs, stationery and also has a small off-licence.
Shop sells over 70 varieties of exotic cheese and the like so you might want to have a pannier with you.
It sells at about £ 4 a bunch but only remains potent for a few days after picked.
Only the estate agent who sells the property will be entitled to a commission.
The reason for this persistent adherence to old and debunked pseudoscience, is that it sells books.
Sainsbury's sells 40 million punnets of strawberries per year.
The Ink Factory Sells ink cartridges and inkjet refill kits for most makes of printer.
A dose of opium sells for 5,000 Iranian rials (60 US cents ).
Why is it that no door to door salesperson sells " No Soliciting " signs?
The police go to question the stall owner who sells the scarves.
The company sells hundreds of bikes every year, from 50cc scooters and custom bikes right up to the market-leading R1.
However, he is not particularly scrupulous about who he sells his information to.
Lyme Regis " She sells seashells by the seashore " Nursery Rhyme inspired by Mary Manning, a Lyme Regis paleontologist.
Diaper Head The delightfully named Diaper Head sells funky exclusive T-shirts with quirky slogans & cute prints for babies and toddlers.
Suppose the agent who discovers succotash puts up a sign that she sells succotash.
Start a contest for whoever gets the most pledges or sells the most tickets.
A stall sells T-shirts with the slogan " Keep Scotland tidy, bin the gruesome twosome.
The employe, who sells the ticket, serves the popcorn, the cinema usher, cleaners, and all the ancillary service providers.
Available in sizes Small & Large, the new Knox Stowaway Back Protector sells for £ 60.00 inc. vat.
She claims that marriage and prostitution are different facets of the same business - the married woman sells sex wholesale, the prostitute retail.
In the cultivated parts the land is so exceedingly fertile and productive that it sells for almost fabulous prices, and its value is still further enhanced by the discovery of manganese and copper mines in the basin of the Rion, and of the almost inexhaustible supplies of naphtha and petroleum at Baku in the Apsheron peninsula.
If you take something worth a dollar, spend an hour working on it, and your employer sells it for three dollars, no way in the world can you ever make more than two dollars an hour.
Sainsbury 's sells 40 million punnets of strawberries per year.
A dose of opium sells for 5,000 Iranian rials (60 US cents).
To Health Monthly sells the highest quality Trim 247 slimming patches online at competitive prices.
Do n't be conned into buying a digital tuner from a spotty youth who mainly sells washing machines.
Opinion & analysis Street vending good for economy A woman sells her wares in the once vibrant Mbare Msika.
The allure of sex is perhaps only excelled by the visceral sensation of fear for which reason it also sells well.