Uttal
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Definitioner
Verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
- (ergative) To be sold.
- To promote a particular viewpoint.
- (slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
- (professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
Substantiv
- An act of selling.
- (obsolete) A seat or stool.
- An easy task.
- (archaic) A saddle.
- (colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax.
Exempel
- If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor.
- No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
- I'll sell you all three for a hundred dollars. Sorry, I'm not prepared to sell.
- This old stock will never sell. The corn sold for a good price.
- My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.
- Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.
- 1922: What a sell for Lena! - Katherine Mansfield, The Doll's House (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 354)
- This is going to be a tough sell.
- "Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."
- turning to that place, in which whyleare / He left his loftie steed with golden sell, / And goodly gorgeous barbes, him found not theare [...].
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