sell
/sɛl/ verb A1- To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money. · She sold her old car very quickly.· I'll sell you three books for a hundred dollars.
- To be sold. · This old stock will never sell.· The corn sold for a good price.
- To promote (a product or service) although not being paid in any direct way or at all.
- To promote (a particular viewpoint). · My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.
- To betray for money or other things.
- To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
- To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
- To throw under the bus; to let down one's own team in an endeavour, especially in a sport or a game. · He's selling!· He really sold in that match.
He/she/it sells · Past sold · Past participle sold · -ing form selling
Verb forms
- Base form
- sell
- He/she/it
- sells
- Past
- sold
- Past participle
- sold
- -ing form
- selling
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- sell away To sell all of an item or group of items.
- sell down To betray a person; to conspire against someone for perso...
- sell off To sell assets for the purpose of disposing of them quick...
- sell on To resell (goods or services).
- sell out To sell all of a supply or stock of something.
- sell up To sell one's business or other major asset (such as a ho...
From the library
They had done very well; but Douglas had suddenly sold out and started for England.
Jonathan Wild was the hidden force of the London criminals, to whom he sold his brains and his organization on a fifteen per cent.
He supposed that summer had come, and went and sold his cloak.
He sold a drug, pretending that it was an antidote to all poisons, and obtained a great name for himself by long-winded puffs and advertisements.
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