The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sell \Sell\ (s[e^]l), v. i.
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To practice selling commodities.
I will buy with you, sell with you; . . . but I will not eat with you.
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To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price.
To sell out, to sell one's whole stock in trade or one's entire interest in a property or a business.
Usage examples of "to sell out".
But we had to sell out, and the cattle-dip, overgrown with grass, afterwards stood like a sunk and overturned ruin of a castle in the air.
Maurice Vane knows what he is doing, and we were fools to sell out to him.
Finally, all the candidates are willing to sell out any of these other issues in service of the one burning desire of all Democrats: abortion on demand.
He fetched me a good sum, too, for I bought him cheap of a man that was 'bliged to sell out.
I'd like to sell out to you, if only because you have helped me when I was sick.