Sell

Verb

 * 1)  To agree to transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
 * I'll sell you all three for a hundred dollars.
 * Sorry, I'm not prepared to sell.
 * 1)  To be sold.
 * This old stock will never sell.
 * 1) To promote a particular viewpoint.
 * My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.
 * 1) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
 * I don't know what she was selling when she pretended she liked him.
 * 1)  To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
 * 1)  To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.

Antonyms

 * buy

Derived terms

 * sell-by date
 * sell-out
 * sell-outs
 * sell-through
 * sell down
 * sell down the river


 * sell ice to Eskimos
 * sell like hotcakes
 * sell one's soul
 * sell out
 * sell refrigerators to Eskimos
 * sell wolf tickets

Noun

 * 1) An act of selling.
 * This is going to be a tough sell.
 * 1) An easy task.
 * 2) * 1922: What a sell for Lena! - Katherine Mansfield, The Doll's House (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 354)

Noun

 * 1)  A seat or stool.
 * 2)  A saddle.
 * 3) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
 * turning to that place, in which whyleare / He left his loftie steed with golden sell, / And goodly gorgeous barbes, him found not theare [...].

Adverbs for Sell
systematically; professionally; constructively; rationally; profitably; legitimately; irregularly; intelligently.

Thesaurus
abalienate, advertise, alien, alienate, amortize, argue into, assign, assure, ballyhoo, bark, barter, be convincing, be in, be sold, bequeath, betray, bill, boost, brim, bring, bring home to, bring in, bring over, bring round, bring to reason, brink, build up, bulletin, bunker, captivate, carry, carry conviction, cater, cede, charm, cheat, circularize, clear the trade, close out, coal, command, con, confer, consign, convert, convert into cash, convey, convict, convince, convinced, cross, cry up, cut under, deal in, deceit, deception, deed, deed over, deliver, demise, devolve upon, dispose of, double-cross, draw, draw over, drive home to, dump, edge, effect a sale, enfeoff, establish, exchange, fake, feed, fetch, fill up, flimflam, flog, forage, fringe, fuel, furnish, gain, gain over, gas, gas up, give, give a write-up, give away, give publicity, give title to, gross, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, handle, hawk, hem, hoax, hook, hook in, inform against, inspire belief, job, lead to believe, liquidate, make a sale, make over, market, merchandise, move, negotiate, net, offer, oil, outtalk, pass, pass on, pass over, peddle, perimeter, periphery, persuade, persuaded, placard, plug, post, post bills, post up, press-agent, prevail on, prevail upon, prevail with, promote, provender, provision, publicize, puff, purvey, push, put across, put over, put-on, realize, resell, retail, return, sacrifice, satisfy, sell for, sell off, sell on consignment, sell one on, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale, selvage, settle, settle on, sham, shop, sign away, sign over, skirt, spiel, spoof, stock, supply, surrender, sway, talk into, talk over, tattle on, tell on, terminate the account, top off, trade, trade in, traffic, traffic in, transfer, transmit, turn into money, turn over, undercut, undersell, unload, vend, verge, victual, wangle, wangle into, wear down, wholesale, win, win over, write up, yield

Etymology 1
From sellan:, later "give up for money", from.

Etymology 2
From selle: from  sella:.

Alternative forms

 * selle

Verb

 * Amharic:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: saldu
 * Belarusian: прадаваць, прадаць
 * Bengali: বেচা
 * Bosnian: prodati, prodavati
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: 1.prodat, 2.prodat se
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, ,  árul
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Korean:, 장사하다,
 * Latgalian:
 * Latvian: pārdot
 * Lithuanian: parduoti
 * Norwegian: få solgt, selge, bli solgt
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, продать
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: продати, продавати
 * Roman: prodati, prodavati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: förråda, idka handel, sälja
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: بیچنا
 * Vietnamese:


 * Hindi: बिकना
 * Russian:, продаться


 * Spanish: ,


 * Spanish: ,


 * Spanish: ,


 * Danish: sælge
 * Dutch: verkopen
 * Esperanto: vendi
 * Finnish: myydä
 * Indonesian: jual, menjual
 * Irish:


 * Kurdish: firotin, firoştin
 * Old English: bebycgan, beċēapian
 * Romanian: vinde
 * Slovene: prodati
 * Swedish: sälja
 * Tagalog: ipagbili, magtinda
 * Telugu: అమ్ము (ammu), విక్రయించు (vikrayinchu)
 * Turkish: satmak
 * Vietnamese: bán

Quotations

 * To trick, or cheat someone.

Anagrams

 * ells

Noun

 * 1) look, glance

Verb

 * 1) To sell.

Etymology
From sellan:.