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Sell   /sɛl/   Listen
Sell

verb
(past & past part. sold; pres. part. selling)
1.
Exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent.  "She sells her body to survive and support her drug habit"  Antonym: buy.
2.
Be sold at a certain price or in a certain way.
3.
Persuade somebody to accept something.
4.
Do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.  Synonyms: deal, trade.  "The brothers sell shoes"
5.
Give up for a price or reward.
6.
Be approved of or gain acceptance.
7.
Be responsible for the sale of.
8.
Deliver to an enemy by treachery.  Synonym: betray.  "The spy betrayed his country"
noun
1.
The activity of persuading someone to buy.



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"Sell" Quotes from Famous Books



... public demonstration of dispositions favourable to England, means were taken to furnish aids of ammunition and arms, and to facilitate the negotiation of loans to the United States; and the owners of American privateers, though forbidden to sell their prizes, or to procure their condemnation, found means to dispose of ...
— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 (of 5) • John Marshall
... I'll sell my loyalty for a mess of pottage! No, I'm for a well-regulated monarchy: hurrah ...
— The Island Home • Richard Archer
... have quite enough weapons and instruments of carnage. I want a small figure,—something which will suit me as a paper-weight, for I cannot endure those trumpery bronzes which the stationers sell, and which may be found on ...
— The Mummy's Foot • Theophile Gautier
... turn into money, they generally consider in what way they can get the most for them. Nuts which grow in the woods and fields are a very uncertain crop, of which every one seems to gather more than the owner, and it is therefore more profitable for him to cut his trees down and sell them for their wood, which the people in the cities and towns are so ...
— Among the Trees at Elmridge • Ella Rodman Church
... the mere picture!" cried the old fellow in astonishment. "Why, I'd sell you the old cow itself ...
— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various


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