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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outsell
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Chardonnay continues to outsell other wines.
▪ Chevrolet's desire to outsell Ford
▪ They claim their machines are outselling Nintendo's machines.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It's a sort of goodwill thing that Bonn puts out for the Allied forces; it doesn't outsell Playboy.
▪ She said the newer, non-traditional flags outsell country and state flags by more than 50 percent.
▪ They are not, however, outselling our best psychologists.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outsell

Outsell \Out*sell"\, v. t.

  1. To exceed in amount of sales; to sell more than.

  2. To exceed in the price of selling; to fetch more than; to exceed in value.
    --Fuller.
    --Shak.

Wiktionary
outsell

vb. To sell more than the others.

WordNet
outsell

  1. v. be sold more often than other, similar products; "The new Toyota outsells the Honda by a wide margin"

  2. sell more than others; "This salesman outsells his colleagues"

  3. [also: outsold]

Usage examples of "outsell".

We live in a day when first editions by Stephen King outsell Mark Twain firsts ten to one, and at the same price.

The final result was a run-of-the-can piece of rubbish easily outselling its nearest competitor.

A synchronized worldwide campaign meant that it was the biggest book launch of all time, with pre-orders outselling any new book in US publishing history.

The results: Within the Quick Chek chain of stores, Durling Farms Premium ice cream outsold the national brands in the first year.

The final result was a run-of-the-can piece of rubbish easily outselling its nearest competitor.

Newspapers, magazines or television programmes that labour under prissy restraints imposed by what is actually known are outsold by media outlets with less scrupulous standards.

It was as if Burns knew the child before him was destined to outsell him, knew the runt would get a knighthood, build Abbotsford and cosy up to the King.

I always felt smug about the fact that we far outsold Mel Fisher's dive shop in Manhattan Beach.