sellverb
uk/sel/us/sel/sold, soldsell verb (MONEY)
A2 [ I or T ] to give something to someone else in return for money:
[ + two objects ] I sold him my car/I sold my car to him for $600.
We'll be selling the tickets at/for £50 each.
The stall sells drinks and snacks.
A2 [ I or T ] to be bought in the way or quantities that are mentioned; to be sold at the price mentioned :
These baskets sell well (= a lot of them are bought).
Their last album sold over a hundred thousand copies.
How much does the phone sell for?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Selling
- auction
- bake sale
- bundle
- chain of production
- divest
- export
- pile
- pile it high and sell it cheap idiom
- price yourself out of the market idiom
- privatize
- purvey
- realizable
- realization
- serve
- shift
- supersize
- telesales
- tout
- undercharge
- unsold
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sell verb (PERSUADE)
C2 [ T ] to persuade someone that an idea or plan is a good one and likely to be successful:
My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.
The filmmakers sold me on the idea that my book would work on the screen.
[ + two objects ] The chance of greater access to European markets would help sell the president the plan/sell the plan to the president.
In an interview, you have to sell yourself to the employer.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Urging & persuading
- argumentation
- blag
- brainwash
- bring
- browbeat
- butter
- get sth out of sb
- incite
- persuasion
- pitch
- preach
- press-gang
- prevail on/upon sb
- proselytize
- rush sb into (doing) sth
- sucker sb into sth
- talk sb down
- talk sb out of sth
- twist
- work on sb
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Idiom(s)
sell sb a bill of goods
sell sb down the river
sell sb/yourself/sth short
sell your soul (to the devil)
Phrasal verb(s)
sell sth off
sell out
sell (sb) out
sell up