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▪ I. selling, vbl. n.|ˈsɛlɪŋ|
[f. sell v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb sell; an instance of this.
a1325MS. Rawl. B. 520 lf. 29 Þoru þe foreseide sullinges ore buchginges of londes. c1440Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 225 Biynge & sillynge þou not forsakist. 1591Child-Marriages 151 And that yow doe not..make.. any order..concerninge the sellinge of your Victualls. 1676Phillips Purchasers Pattern 1 The buying and selling of Land. a1700Evelyn Diary 3 Sept. 1683, His late purchas'd house at Chelsey, which I once had the selling of. 1772R. Graves Spir. Quixote (1783) III. 282 He excelled in smart repartees, and selling of bargains, as they call it. 1885Athenæum 29 Aug. 269/1 The buyings and sellings of land.
b. With an adverb.
1852Mundy Antipodes I. 58 During the first year or two of my residence in Sydney, the selling off of families going home or into retirement were very numerous. 1872Punch 1 June 232/2 The notices of pretended sellings-off of swindling bankrupts' stock. 1903Westm. Gaz. 29 May 11/1 Selling-out is going on in a desultory manner round the Stock Exchange to-day.
c. attrib. and Comb., as selling invoice, selling job, selling-power, selling rights, selling title, selling value; selling-point, a place at which sales may be effected (cf. point-of-sale s.v. point n.1 D. 17), a retail outlet; selling price, the price at which an article is offered for sale; selling race, a race for horses which are to be sold after the race; so selling chase, selling handicap, selling plate (hence selling plater), selling stakes, selling sweepstakes: see the ns.
1965D. Francis For Kicks iii. 44 The horses had all won *selling chases—races where the winner was subsequently put up to auction.
1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 60 A *selling Invoice.
1963Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 23 Nov. (1970) 8, I will have to..see about getting Lynda Bird to come back and live in Washington with us and go to school somewhere up here (and that will be a *selling job!). 1976I. Levin Boys from Brazil iii. 77 He's never been as sure as the rest of us that the project will work... The selling job we had to do!
1888*Selling plate [see plate n. 17]. 1886*Selling plater [see plater 3]. 1898Encycl. Sport II. 219/2 This is another risk run by owners who wish to gamble on selling platers.
1953Chambers's Jrnl. June 343/1 In recent years some seaside resorts have entered the catering business... Margate, starting with nothing in 1946, now has fifty-two *selling-points. 1960R. Williams Border Country 158 Within a month..he would have all the selling-points he needed.
1904J. London Let. 11 July (1966) 161 My *selling-power has increased. 1960C. S. Lewis Studies in Words 104 The literary innovators want to retain the prestige, almost the ‘selling-power’, of the consecrated word.
1815*Selling price [see price-current]. 1848Leon On Sugar Cultiv. i. 68 The selling price of sugar delivered on board ship.
1898Encycl. Sport II. 219/1 *Selling races are the lowest forms of contest recognised by the rules of racing; and selling handicaps, the lowest of all. Ibid. 219/2 The winner of a selling race has..to be sold by auction; the owner receives no more than the entered selling price.
1908Westm. Gaz. 2 Apr. 4/3 [They] have secured the sole *selling rights in this country..for the Autoclipse lamps.
1839Sporting Mag., Racing Cal. 3 The *Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each..for horses of all ages.
Ibid. Ser. ii. XX. 71 A *Selling Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each.
1884Law Times Rep. 1 Mar. L. 20/1 The consent of the parties entitled for life was not necessary to enable the trustees to make a good *selling title.
1803Ann. Rev. I. 383/1 The singularity of the parody has given to such notes a *selling value analogous to current value.
▪ II. selling, ppl. a.|ˈsɛlɪŋ|
[f. sell v. + -ing2.]
1. That readily finds buyers, saleable.
1771Luckombe Hist. Print. 227 Irregular Bodied Letter of the smaller sizes sometimes serves the ends of proprietors of standing and selling Copies. 1854Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XV. ii. 241 He will find nothing more selling than a carefully selected lot of young stock. 1896Westm. Gaz. 6 Feb. 3/3 International quarrels unfortunately make the most selling ‘copy’.
2. That is engaged in selling.
1848Mill Pol. Econ. iii. xvii. §4. 116 The authors and leaders of opinion on mercantile questions have always hitherto been of the selling class.
3. That helps to effect a sale; esp. in phrr. selling point, selling title.
1875Trollope Way We live Now II. lxxxix. 248, I don't believe that anything like real selling praise is ever given to anybody, except to friends. 1959Times 4 Mar. 11/7 The educational usefulness of television in backward areas depends on a firm grasp of the staffing problem. Otherwise it will be a selling-point, not a reality. 1963P. Phillips in Sissons & French Age of Austerity 148 The old selling phrase ‘pre-war value’ lost some of its attraction. 1965W. Haggard Hard Sell ii. 12 ‘A delightful name for an aeroplane, isn't it?’.. ‘I'd call it a selling title.’ 1978Times 27 Jan. 13/7 A French name is still a selling point for clothes. |