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▪ I. seller1|ˈsɛlə(r)|
Forms: 3–4 sullere, 4 suller, -ar, Kent. zeller, 4–5 siller(e, 5 sellere, -ar(e, -our, 5–6 syller, 4– seller.
[f. sell v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who sells.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 213 Þe sullere loueð his þing dere... Ðe beger bet litel þar fore. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 90 Most principale sillere of benefices & veyn indulgencis. a1400Old Usages Wynchestre in Eng. Gilds 355 Euerych sullere of bred in þe heyȝestrete of Wynchestre. 1444Rolls of Parlt. V. 116/2 To damage of the beyour or sellour. 1540Sel. Pleas Crt. Admiralty (1894) I. 98 Having a byll of sale..delyvered to hym by the seller. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. iii. 240 To things of sale, a sellers praise belongs. 1692Locke Lower. Interest 132 And so[to] raise the Price of Land, by making more Buyers than Sellers. 1776Adam Smith W.N. iv. ii. 46 By diminishing the number of sellers, therefore, we necessarily diminish that of buyers. 1855Dickens Dorrit i. xii, The Plaintiff was a chaunter, not a singer of anthems, but a seller of horses. 1866W. Reed Hist. Sugar 159 Whilst sellers advanced their claims to be heard on the ground, that if [etc.]..the Americans would immediately become strong buyers. 1884J. Gilmour Mongols xxxi. 365 After the two busy seasons there are a few buyers and sellers. 1900Daily News 20 June 9/1 The number of easy sellers in cloth is again on the increase.
fig.1697G. Burghope Disc. Relig. Assemblies xii. 121 His Ears itch, and he runs after the Canting Seller of Breath.
b. seller-up: see sell v. 14 b.
1894A. Morrison Tales Mean Streets 294 A professional rent-receiver and seller-up.
c. Business. In various phrases, as: (a) seller four (seller ten, seller twenty, seller the year, etc.): a form of contract in which the seller has the right to effect delivery within the specified number of days (four, ten, etc.); seller's option: the right of the seller to specify the number of days after which a sale is effected.
1849Merchants' Mag. (U.S.) XX. 670 Fifty-six, buyer 20; 3rd broker—553/4, seller 10. 1857Ibid. XXXVII. 134 Sales at seller's option are generally a fraction below the current cash price. 1869‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abr. xxxiv. 369 Sales of one lot Circassians, prime to good, 1852–1854..; one forty-niner—damaged—at {pstlg}23, seller ten, no deposit.
(b) seller's market: a market in which there is excess demand at the going rate so that it is easy to effect additional sales. Also fig.
1934in Webster. 1948G. Crowther Outl. Money (ed. 2) v. 163 The raw material markets may be transformed overnight from ‘seller's markets’ (i.e. where buying is insistent and the seller is in the strategic position) into ‘buyer's markets’, while the opposite movement is much slower. 1965Zigrosser & Gaehde Guide to Collecting Orig. Prints vi. 91 In boom times and a seller's market, almost anyone can set up as a dealer and make a success of it. 1979R. Jaffe Class Reunion iii. vii. 275 Everybody..here seems to be going to some shrink. They're all into self-help,..or screaming sessions, or group therapy... It's a seller's market.
2. A thing to be sold.
1831Sutherland Farm Rep 80 in Libr. Usef. Knowl., Husb. III, The packs, or shepherds' lambs, are divided into two sorts, sellers and keepers.
3. Something with a (wide, poor, etc.) sale; also, without qualification, something that sells well. Also used of other commodities.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 6/2 Brocaded Brilliantines... This line we expect will be one of the greatest sellers of the season. 1900Century Mag. LIX. 646/2 But tragic novels are poor sellers. 1903Munsey's Mag. XXIX. 764 What are known as ‘sellers’—meaning books that enjoy a wide sale. 1905Athenæum 9 Sept. 330/3 Fortunately the ‘best sellers’ are the worst survivors. 1925Daily Tel. 13 May 20/7 (Advt.), Traveller Wanted.—We offer the latest new line. Big seller. Live men can earn {pstlg}10 week. 1976Times 1 May (Food Suppl.) p. ii/6 On tinned meat he said: ‘My advice is to stock the major sellers, such as stewed steak.’
4. A selling race. colloq.
1922N. & Q. 12th Ser. XI. 207/1 Seller,..a selling race—one in which the winner is bound to be offered by public auction. 1927Daily Express 23 June 12/2 The game little Congou colt took another seller. 1928Daily Sketch 7 Aug. 22/4 Another interesting proposition at the Midland meeting is the Loud Report filly in the juvenile seller.
▪ II. † ˈseller2 Obs. rare.
Also 4 seler.
[a. OF. seller, selier (mod.F. sellier), f. selle saddle: see sell n.1]
A saddler.
1311in Cal. Let.-Bk. Lond. D 64 [The same day, Richard de Gloucestre], seler, [admitted]. 1415in York Myst. Introd. 26 Sellers [foot-n. ‘Sadellers’ is written above].
▪ III. seller
obs. f. cellar, celure; var. soler. |