Meaning of sell | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
   ditransitive, intransitive, transitive
2. To get rid of by selling, often at reduced prices.
3. To be sold.
   ergative
4. To be purchased as a retail item by a customer: The clothes are in the store, but they aren't selling through.
5. To promote (a product or service) although not being paid in any direct way or at all.
   transitive
6. To take unfair advantage of.
7. To promote (a particular viewpoint).
   transitive
8. To betray the trust or faith of.
9. To betray for money or other things.
   transitive
10. To get rid of completely by selling, especially in quantity or at a discount:close out, dump, sell out, unload.
11. To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
    slang, transitive
12. Slang. Market appeal:marketability, marketableness, salability, salableness.
13. To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
    slang, transitive
14. to be enthusiastic about. I'm sold on the idea of a holiday in Canada. entoesiasties oor مُتَحَمِّس جِدا харесвам нещо estar entusiasmado com být nadšen völlig hin und weg sein være med på έχω ενθουσιαστεί με κτ. estar entusiasmado (por) vaimustuses olema شور و شوق olla myyty être emballé לִקנוֹת אֶת הָרַעָיוֹן उत्साहित uvjeren, oduševljen bele van esve vmibe antusias vera æstur/ákafur í (essere entusiasta) ～に夢中になる (~에) 정신이 팔리다 būti užsidegusiam iedegties (par ideju) penuh ghairah enthousiast...
15. To throw under the bus; to let down one's own team in an endeavour, especially in a sport or a game.
    Australia, intransitive, slang
16. to betray. The gang was sold down the river by one of its associates. verraai يَخون предавам (някого) trair zradit verraten forråde προδίδωtraicionar petma خيانت كردن pettää trahir לִהיוֹת נִבגָד गद्दारी करना izdati átejt vkit mengkhianati svíkja tradire 裏切る 배신하다 išduoti nodot membelot bedriegenforråde zdradzać خیانت کول trair a trăda предать zradiť izdati izdati förråda ทรยศ kalleşlik/kancıklık etmek 出賣 зраджувати غداری کرنا phản bội ai 出卖
17. to sell quickly and cheaply. They're selling off their old stock. goedkoop verkoop يَبيعُ بِسُرْعَةٍ وأسْعار مُنْخَفِضَه разпродавам liquidar vyprodat ausverkaufen sælge ud; realisere ξεπουλώliquidar maha müüma جنسي را آب كردن myydä pois halvalla liquider לִמכּוֹר בְּזוֹל सस्ते में बेच देना rasprodati, prodati po niskoj cijeni kiárusít mengobral selja ódÿrt; losa sig við liquidare 売り払う 헐값에 팔아치우다 išparduoti izpārdot menjual murah uitverkopenselge ut, tømme lageret wyprzedawać po niższych cenac...
18. to sell a house, business etc. He has sold up his share of the business. verkoop يبيعُ كلَ شَيْئ разпродавам имущество vender prodat pfänden afhænde πουλώvender (ära) müüma يكجا فروختن؛واگذار كردن myydä vendre לִמכּוֹר אֶת כָּל הַרכוּש घर इत्यादि बेचना plijeniti koga, staviti na bubanj elad, kiárusít menjual selja vendere 売り払う 처분하다 parduoti pārdot (izsolē u.tml.) menjual verkopenselge, kvitte seg med odsprzedawać یو ځای خرڅول venderраспродавать predať prodati prodati sälja [på exekutiv auktio...
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Equivalents

Examples

“She sold her old car very quickly.”

“I'll sell you three books for a hundred dollars.”

“Sorry, I'm not prepared to sell.”

“If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor.”

“No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.”

“This old stock will never sell.”

“The corn sold for a good price.”

“Howard: You're gonna feel terrible when I'm in a wheelchair. Which, by the way, would fit easily in the back of this award-winning minivan. Bernadette: Fine, we'll go to the E.R. Just stop selling me on the van. Howard: You're right. It sells itself.”

“My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.”

“Then weaues Other crosse-plots New tricks for safety, are sought; They thriue: When, bold, Each tempt's th'other againe, and all are sold.”

“House was jammed again that night, and we sold this crowd the same way.”

“Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.”

“He's selling!”

“He really sold in that match.”

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