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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"
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



... where my few worldly possessions, including my dress clothes, my amputating set, and such of my books as I had not been able to sell, were awaiting disposition. "Very ...
— The After House • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... little income, and Migwan, setting her teeth bravely, drew the remainder of her college money from the bank to pay the hospital and surgeon's bills. Then she set to work with redoubled zeal to write something which would sell. So far everything she had sent out had come back promptly. For a long time certain advertisements in the magazines had been holding her attention. They read something like this: "Write Moving Picture Plays. Bring $50 to $100 each. We teach you how by an infallible method. Anybody can do ...
— The Camp Fire Girls at School • Hildegard G. Frey
... buyin' the Shores baby outfit," she said. "I guess Mr. Shores 'll be glad to sell it cheap. They say 't he can't bear to be reminded o' the baby, 'n' I don't well see what else the crib 'n' the baby carriage ...
— Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop • Anne Warner
... once considerable store—the bracelet that was in the hands of M. Guldenthal, and a diamond ring that he wore on his finger. He decided that, before quitting Chur, he would borrow money on this ring, or that he would try to sell it. ...
— Samuel Brohl & Company • Victor Cherbuliez
... of primary and technical education the peasants have become well acquainted with the science of agriculture, and are always ready to undertake in common the necessary improvements. They no longer exhaust the soil by exporting the grain, but sell merely certain technical products containing no mineral ingredients. For this purpose the Communes possess distilleries, starch-works, and the like, and the soil thereby retains its original fertility. ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace


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