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selling

/ˈsɛlɪŋ/ noun A1
  1. Action of the verb to sell. (countable, uncountable) · buyings and sellings
  2. Skill at salesmanship. (countable, uncountable) · You've got to work on your selling.

Plural sellings

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At one place a man was selling green lemonade, and when the children bought it Dorothy could see that they paid for it with green pennies.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 64 · B2
I’d love to go up in a balloon, Marilla; it would be simply thrilling; and we saw a man selling fortunes.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 238 · C1
under pretext of trading along the coast, these men, who are in reality smugglers, will prefer selling me to doing a good action.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 226 · C1
“But take care the same thing does not happen to you in selling the diamond you feared with the gold.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 843 · C1

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