sell out
— phrasal verb with sell uk/sel/us/sel/verb sold, sold
(SELL ALL)
to sell all of the supply that you have of something:
We sold out of the T-shirts in the first couple of hours.
B2 If a supply of something sells out, there is no more of that thing to buy:
The first issue of the magazine sold out within two days.
[ passive ] When a film, concert, etc. is sold out, all of the tickets for it have been sold:
We couldn't get seats - the concert was sold out.
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Selling
- auction
- bake sale
- bundle
- chain of production
- divest
- export
- package
- pile it high and sell it cheap idiom
- price yourself out of the market idiom
- privatize
- purvey
- realizable
- realization
- serve
- shift
- telesales
- tout
- undercharge
- unsold
- upsell
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(SELL BUSINESS)
to sell your business or part of your business:
They decided to sell out to their competitors.
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Success & failure in business
- administration
- axe
- bankrupt
- bankruptcy
- branch
- branch out
- collapse
- establish
- fold
- foreclose
- joint venture
- liquidate
- liquidator
- locate
- moribund
- official receiver
- organic growth
- receivership
- shut (sth) down
- spin
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