sellingn.

/ˈsɛlɪŋ/

Etymology: < sell v. + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of sell v.; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > [noun]

salec1050

sellinga1325

merchandisinga1425

utterance1436

venting1532

vendition1542

vent1548

assale1566

ventage1577

vent1583

vending1666

distribution1793

flogging1919

turnaround1936

a1325 MS. Rawl. B. 520 lf. 29 Þoru þe foreseide sullinges ore buchginges of londes.

c1440 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 225 Biynge & sillynge þou not forsakist.

1591 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 151 And that yow doe not..make.. any order..concerninge the sellinge of your Victualls.

1676 H. Phillippes Purchasers Pattern 1 The buying and selling of Land.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 335 His late purchased house at <Chelsey>, of which I had once the selling for the Countesse of Bristol.

1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote III. xii. vii. 282 He excelled in smart repartees, and selling of bargains, as they call it.

1885 Athenæum 29 Aug. 269/1 The buyings and sellings of land.

b. With an adverb.

ΚΠ

1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. ii. 58 During the first year or two of my residence in Sydney, the sellings-off of families going home or into retirement were very numerous.

1872 Punch 1 June 232/2 The notices of pretended sellings-off of swindling bankrupts' stock.

1903 Westm. Gaz. 29 May 11/1 Selling-out is going on in a desultory manner round the Stock Exchange to-day.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

selling chase n.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race

wild-goose race1594

wild goose chase1597

bell-course1607

Palio1673

stake1696

paddock course1705

handicap1751

by-match1759

pony race1765

give and take plate1769

sweepstake1773

steeplechase1793

mile-heat1802

steeple race1809

welter1820

trotting-race1822

scurry1824

walkover1829

steeple hunt1831

set-to1840

sky race1840

flat race1848

trot1856

grind1857

feeler1858

nursery1860

waiting race1868

horse-trot1882

selling plate1888

flying milea1893

chase1894

flying handicap1894

prep1894

selling race1898

point-to-point1902

seller1922

shoo-in1928

daily double1930

bumper1946

selling chase1965

tiercé1981

1965 D. Francis For Kicks iii. 44 The horses had all won selling chases—races where the winner was subsequently put up to auction.

selling invoice n.

ΚΠ

1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 60 A selling Invoice.

selling job n.

ΚΠ

1963 Mrs. 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!).

1976 I. 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!

selling plater n.

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1886 Sat. Rev. 6 Mar. 327/2 A veteran selling-plater who has passed through some ten or a dozen stables.

1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 219/2 This is another risk run by owners who wish to gamble on selling platers.

selling-power n.

ΚΠ

1904 J. London Let. 11 July (1966) 161 My selling-power has increased.

1960 C. S. Lewis Stud. in Words 104 The literary innovators want to retain the prestige, almost the ‘selling-power’, of the consecrated word.

selling rights n.

ΚΠ

1908 Westm. Gaz. 2 Apr. 4/3 [They] have secured the sole selling rights in this country..for the Autoclipse lamps.

selling stake n.

ΚΠ

1839 Sporting Mag., Racing Cal. 3 The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each..for horses of all ages.

selling sweepstake n.

ΚΠ

1839 Sporting Mag. 2nd Ser. 20 71 A Selling Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each.

selling title n.

ΚΠ

1884 Law 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.

selling value n.

ΚΠ

1803 Ann. Rev. 1 383/1 The singularity of the parody has given to such notes a selling value analogous to current value.

C2.

selling plate n. a horse race the condition of entry to which is that the winner must be sold at a price previously fixed; also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race

wild-goose race1594

wild goose chase1597

bell-course1607

Palio1673

stake1696

paddock course1705

handicap1751

by-match1759

pony race1765

give and take plate1769

sweepstake1773

steeplechase1793

mile-heat1802

steeple race1809

welter1820

trotting-race1822

scurry1824

walkover1829

steeple hunt1831

set-to1840

sky race1840

flat race1848

trot1856

grind1857

feeler1858

nursery1860

waiting race1868

horse-trot1882

selling plate1888

flying milea1893

chase1894

flying handicap1894

prep1894

selling race1898

point-to-point1902

seller1922

shoo-in1928

daily double1930

bumper1946

selling chase1965

tiercé1981

1888 Times 26 June 4/5 He said Success was a good horse for a selling plate.

1955 Times 5 Aug. 4/1 Magic Key may be favourite to open the card at Lewes in the selling race. He has been placed in his last three races, being unlucky enough to come up against horses above the average for selling plates.

1979 K. Bonfiglioli After You with Pistol v. 22 A diet of beefsteak, oysters and Guinness would soon lift me out of the selling-plate class.

selling-point n. a place at which sales may be effected (cf. point of sale n. at point n.¹ Phrases 2j), a retail outlet.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun]

retailour1445

outlet1803

waygate1833

point of sale1844

selling-point1953

POS1969

1953 Chambers'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.

1960 R. Williams Border Country 158 Within a month..he would have all the selling-points he needed.

selling price n. the price at which an article is offered for sale.

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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > asking or selling price

asking1589

sale price?1714

asking price1755

selling price1815

ask price1874

offer price1925

ask1981

1815 Niles' Reg. 9 3/2 This account of the selling prices of the several stocks mentioned, is taken from the public prices current of the two places.

1848 Leon On Sugar Cultiv. i. 68 The selling price of sugar delivered on board ship.

selling race n. a race for horses which are to be sold after the race; so selling chase, selling handicap, selling stakes, selling sweepstakes: see the nouns.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race

wild-goose race1594

wild goose chase1597

bell-course1607

Palio1673

stake1696

paddock course1705

handicap1751

by-match1759

pony race1765

give and take plate1769

sweepstake1773

steeplechase1793

mile-heat1802

steeple race1809

welter1820

trotting-race1822

scurry1824

walkover1829

steeple hunt1831

set-to1840

sky race1840

flat race1848

trot1856

grind1857

feeler1858

nursery1860

waiting race1868

horse-trot1882

selling plate1888

flying milea1893

chase1894

flying handicap1894

prep1894

selling race1898

point-to-point1902

seller1922

shoo-in1928

daily double1930

bumper1946

selling chase1965

tiercé1981

1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. 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.

1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 219/2 The winner of a selling race has..to be sold by auction; the owner receives no more than the entered selling price.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

sellingadj.

/ˈsɛlɪŋ/

Etymology: < sell v. + -ing suffix².

1. That readily finds buyers, saleable.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > able to be sold

sellablea1382

vendiblec1384

vendablec1400

sale-worthyc1440

market-like1473

sale-worth1481

venable1507

saleable1530

marketable1577

utterable1581

chapmanable1594

selling1770

tenderable1868

1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 227 Irregular Bodied Letter of the smaller sizes sometimes serves the ends of proprietors of standing and selling Copies.

1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 ii. 241 He will find nothing more selling than a carefully selected lot of young stock.

1896 Westm. Gaz. 6 Feb. 3/3 International quarrels unfortunately make the most selling ‘copy’.

2. That is engaged in selling.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective]

marketing1746

selling1848

1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. 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, title.

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society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > that helps to effect sale

selling1875

1875 A. Trollope 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.

1959 Times 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.

1963 P. Phillips in M. Sissons & P. French Age of Austerity 148 The old selling phrase ‘pre-war value’ lost some of its attraction.

1965 ‘W. Haggard’ Hard Sell ii. 12 ‘A delightful name for an aeroplane, isn't it?’.. ‘I'd call it a selling title.’

1978 Times 27 Jan. 13/7 A French name is still a selling point for clothes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

单词	selling
释义	sellingn. /ˈsɛlɪŋ/ Etymology: < sell v. + -ing suffix¹. a. The action of sell v.; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] salec1050 sellinga1325 merchandisinga1425 utterance1436 venting1532 vendition1542 vent1548 assale1566 ventage1577 vent1583 vending1666 distribution1793 flogging1919 turnaround1936 a1325 MS. Rawl. B. 520 lf. 29 Þoru þe foreseide sullinges ore buchginges of londes. c1440 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 225 Biynge & sillynge þou not forsakist. 1591 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 151 And that yow doe not..make.. any order..concerninge the sellinge of your Victualls. 1676 H. Phillippes Purchasers Pattern 1 The buying and selling of Land. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 335 His late purchased house at <Chelsey>, of which I had once the selling for the Countesse of Bristol. 1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote III. xii. vii. 282 He excelled in smart repartees, and selling of bargains, as they call it. 1885 Athenæum 29 Aug. 269/1 The buyings and sellings of land. b. With an adverb. ΚΠ 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. ii. 58 During the first year or two of my residence in Sydney, the sellings-off of families going home or into retirement were very numerous. 1872 Punch 1 June 232/2 The notices of pretended sellings-off of swindling bankrupts' stock. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 29 May 11/1 Selling-out is going on in a desultory manner round the Stock Exchange to-day. Compounds C1. General attributive. selling chase n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race wild-goose race1594 wild goose chase1597 bell-course1607 Palio1673 stake1696 paddock course1705 handicap1751 by-match1759 pony race1765 give and take plate1769 sweepstake1773 steeplechase1793 mile-heat1802 steeple race1809 welter1820 trotting-race1822 scurry1824 walkover1829 steeple hunt1831 set-to1840 sky race1840 flat race1848 trot1856 grind1857 feeler1858 nursery1860 waiting race1868 horse-trot1882 selling plate1888 flying milea1893 chase1894 flying handicap1894 prep1894 selling race1898 point-to-point1902 seller1922 shoo-in1928 daily double1930 bumper1946 selling chase1965 tiercé1981 1965 D. Francis For Kicks iii. 44 The horses had all won selling chases—races where the winner was subsequently put up to auction. selling invoice n. ΚΠ 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 60 A selling Invoice. selling job n. ΚΠ 1963 Mrs. 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!). 1976 I. 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! selling plater n. ΚΠ 1886 Sat. Rev. 6 Mar. 327/2 A veteran selling-plater who has passed through some ten or a dozen stables. 1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 219/2 This is another risk run by owners who wish to gamble on selling platers. selling-power n. ΚΠ 1904 J. London Let. 11 July (1966) 161 My selling-power has increased. 1960 C. S. Lewis Stud. in Words 104 The literary innovators want to retain the prestige, almost the ‘selling-power’, of the consecrated word. selling rights n. ΚΠ 1908 Westm. Gaz. 2 Apr. 4/3 [They] have secured the sole selling rights in this country..for the Autoclipse lamps. selling stake n. ΚΠ 1839 Sporting Mag., Racing Cal. 3 The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each..for horses of all ages. selling sweepstake n. ΚΠ 1839 Sporting Mag. 2nd Ser. 20 71 A Selling Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each. selling title n. ΚΠ 1884 Law 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. selling value n. ΚΠ 1803 Ann. Rev. 1 383/1 The singularity of the parody has given to such notes a selling value analogous to current value. C2. selling plate n. a horse race the condition of entry to which is that the winner must be sold at a price previously fixed; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race wild-goose race1594 wild goose chase1597 bell-course1607 Palio1673 stake1696 paddock course1705 handicap1751 by-match1759 pony race1765 give and take plate1769 sweepstake1773 steeplechase1793 mile-heat1802 steeple race1809 welter1820 trotting-race1822 scurry1824 walkover1829 steeple hunt1831 set-to1840 sky race1840 flat race1848 trot1856 grind1857 feeler1858 nursery1860 waiting race1868 horse-trot1882 selling plate1888 flying milea1893 chase1894 flying handicap1894 prep1894 selling race1898 point-to-point1902 seller1922 shoo-in1928 daily double1930 bumper1946 selling chase1965 tiercé1981 1888 Times 26 June 4/5 He said Success was a good horse for a selling plate. 1955 Times 5 Aug. 4/1 Magic Key may be favourite to open the card at Lewes in the selling race. He has been placed in his last three races, being unlucky enough to come up against horses above the average for selling plates. 1979 K. Bonfiglioli After You with Pistol v. 22 A diet of beefsteak, oysters and Guinness would soon lift me out of the selling-plate class. selling-point n. a place at which sales may be effected (cf. point of sale n. at point n.¹ Phrases 2j), a retail outlet. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] retailour1445 outlet1803 waygate1833 point of sale1844 selling-point1953 POS1969 1953 Chambers'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. 1960 R. Williams Border Country 158 Within a month..he would have all the selling-points he needed. selling price n. the price at which an article is offered for sale. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > asking or selling price asking1589 sale price?1714 asking price1755 selling price1815 ask price1874 offer price1925 ask1981 1815 Niles' Reg. 9 3/2 This account of the selling prices of the several stocks mentioned, is taken from the public prices current of the two places. 1848 Leon On Sugar Cultiv. i. 68 The selling price of sugar delivered on board ship. selling race n. a race for horses which are to be sold after the race; so selling chase, selling handicap, selling stakes, selling sweepstakes: see the nouns. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race wild-goose race1594 wild goose chase1597 bell-course1607 Palio1673 stake1696 paddock course1705 handicap1751 by-match1759 pony race1765 give and take plate1769 sweepstake1773 steeplechase1793 mile-heat1802 steeple race1809 welter1820 trotting-race1822 scurry1824 walkover1829 steeple hunt1831 set-to1840 sky race1840 flat race1848 trot1856 grind1857 feeler1858 nursery1860 waiting race1868 horse-trot1882 selling plate1888 flying milea1893 chase1894 flying handicap1894 prep1894 selling race1898 point-to-point1902 seller1922 shoo-in1928 daily double1930 bumper1946 selling chase1965 tiercé1981 1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. 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. 1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 219/2 The winner of a selling race has..to be sold by auction; the owner receives no more than the entered selling price. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019). sellingadj. /ˈsɛlɪŋ/ Etymology: < sell v. + -ing suffix². 1. That readily finds buyers, saleable. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > able to be sold sellablea1382 vendiblec1384 vendablec1400 sale-worthyc1440 market-like1473 sale-worth1481 venable1507 saleable1530 marketable1577 utterable1581 chapmanable1594 selling1770 tenderable1868 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 227 Irregular Bodied Letter of the smaller sizes sometimes serves the ends of proprietors of standing and selling Copies. 1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 ii. 241 He will find nothing more selling than a carefully selected lot of young stock. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 6 Feb. 3/3 International quarrels unfortunately make the most selling ‘copy’. 2. That is engaged in selling. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] marketing1746 selling1848 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. 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, title. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > that helps to effect sale selling1875 1875 A. Trollope 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. 1959 Times 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. 1963 P. Phillips in M. Sissons & P. French Age of Austerity 148 The old selling phrase ‘pre-war value’ lost some of its attraction. 1965 ‘W. Haggard’ Hard Sell ii. 12 ‘A delightful name for an aeroplane, isn't it?’.. ‘I'd call it a selling title.’ 1978 Times 27 Jan. 13/7 A French name is still a selling point for clothes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.a1325adj.1770
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