Crossword clues for selling
selling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sell \Sell\ (s[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sold (s[=o]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Selling.] [OE. sellen, sillen, AS. sellan, syllan, to give, to deliver; akin to OS. sellian, OFries. sella, OHG. sellen, Icel. selja to hand over, to sell, Sw. s["a]lja to sell, Dan. s[ae]lge, Goth. saljan to offer a sacrifice; all from a noun akin to E. sale. Cf. Sale.]
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To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money. It is the correlative of buy.
If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor.
--Matt. xix. 21.I am changed; I'll go sell all my land.
--Shak.Note: Sell is corellative to buy, as one party buys what the other sells. It is distinguished usually from exchange or barter, in which one commodity is given for another; whereas in selling the consideration is usually money, or its representative in current notes.
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To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray.
You would have sold your king to slaughter.
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To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat. [Slang]
--Dickens.To sell one's life dearly, to cause much loss to those who take one's life, as by killing a number of one's assailants.
To sell (anything) out, to dispose of it wholly or entirely; as, he had sold out his corn, or his interest in a business.
Wiktionary
n. action of the verb ''to sell''. vb. (present participle of sell English)
WordNet
n. the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money [syn: merchandising, marketing]
Wikipedia
Selling is the profession of making sales. Selling may also refer to:
- Trade
- Sale (disambiguation)
- Sales (disambiguation)
- Selling, Denmark, small town in Denmark
- Selling, Kent, village
- Ben Selling (1853–1931), U.S. businessman and politician
- Margarete Selling, German rower
- Magnus Selling (1903-1986), Swedish philosopher
Usage examples of "selling".
The accounting for the two sides of the transaction-buying production payments and selling fixed-price contracts-followed different rules.
But the syndicate members were bankers just like 518 KEN FOLLETT the Pilasters, and in their hearts they thought There but for the grace of God go L Besides, the cooperation of the partners was helpful in selling off the assets, and it was worth a small payment to retain their goodwill.
The counsel for the appellee would limit it to traffic, to buying and selling, or the interchange of commodities, and do not admit that it comprehends navigation.
On gaudy yawls and barquentines, they were arguing, buying and selling and stealing, learning Salt, some weeping, poring over maps of the city, calculating the distance from New Crobuzon or Nova Esperium.
Mars, far enough from Earth almost to be considered a Belter outpost, remained steadfastly neutral, which meant they were on both sides, selling.
Consequently, the Port Authority has made a virtue of necessity, and -- as you say -- raises revenue for its services by blatantly selling them for whatever the market will bear.
She and James had done well in California, not from panning gold but from selling beef to the prospectors in the blossoming gold rush towns.
Now they were sitting on a bench in front of an open-air tea stand among booths selling sugared rice cakes, ear shellfish, and gift-wrapped packages of dried bonito and papery seaweed.
Selling the house Bree shared with Vinnie, along with most of its contents, to pay off their debts and finance her beauty shop provided continued security, a future for Sydney.
It was a clever circle the former rancher had drawn, helping the homesteader to find land, selling him the tools to work it, and the lumber for his house.
Although the Toy City press were selling the populace the story that Humpty had committed suicide, the police knew that it was Murder Most Foul, and questions were being asked in very high places as to why Bellis had not yet tracked down the murderer.
They seemed, to Mandy, to be very young to be selling off a multi-million dollar property.
I am not selling slave manumission for information, I am not handing out any rewards for information!
What they actually wanted, though, was a large sample of metastasizing cells so they could perfect the biggest selling point of the Health-Guard: cancer protection.
I noticed the shops selling lucky charms and meteor repellent in the last week or so.