Meaning

(transitive, ditransitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, ditransitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
2. (ergative) To be sold.
3. (transitive) To promote (a product or service) although not being paid in any direct way or at all.
4. (transitive) To promote (a particular viewpoint).
5. (transitive) To betray for money or other things.
6. (transitive, slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
7. (transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
8. (Australia, slang, intransitive) To throw under the bus; to let down one's own team in an endeavour, especially in a sport or a game.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• sells
• selling
• sold
• selle

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Use sell when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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