sell
verb
[ sɛl ]
• give or hand over (something) in exchange for money.
• "they had sold the car"
Similar:
dispose of,
get rid of,
vend,
auction (off),
put up for sale,
offer for sale,
put on sale,
trade,
barter,
exchange,
part-exchange,
give in part-exchange,
vending,
selling off,
auctioning,
trading,
trade (in),
traffic,
trafficking,
bartering,
exchanging,
part-exchanging,
salesmanship,
sales,
marketing,
merchandising,
promotion,
advertising,
• persuade someone of the merits of.
• "he sold the idea of making a film about Tchaikovsky"
Similar:
persuade someone to accept,
talk someone into,
bring someone round to,
win someone over to,
get acceptance for,
win approval for,
get support for,
get across,
promote,
• trick or deceive (someone).
• "what we want is to go out of here quiet, and talk this show up, and sell the rest of the town"
sell
noun
• an act of selling or attempting to sell something.
• "every other television commercial is a sell for Australian lager"
• a disappointment, typically one arising from being deceived as to the merits of something.
• "actually, Hawaii's a bit of a sell—not a patch on Corfu"
Origin:
Old English sellan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse selja ‘give up, sell’. Early use included the sense ‘give, hand (something) over voluntarily in response to a request’.
