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单词 to sell out
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to sell out
to sell out
1. transitive. To distribute by sale.
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society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > distribute by trade, sale, or order
distrade1623
to sell out1648
fill1860
place1887
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xii. 42 The Herbes and Salets..which were sold out, brought in a great Rent yeerely.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 506 The Corn being sold out at a much dearer Rate than 'tis bought up.
2. To dispose of (stock, shares, etc.) by sale. Also absol.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (transitive)] > specific operations
subscribe1618
to take up1655
to sell out1721
to take in1721
to take up1740
pool?1780
capitalize1797
put1814
feed1818
to vote (the) stock (or shares)1819
corner1836
to sell short1852
promote1853
recapitalize1856
refund1857
float1865
water1865
margin1870
unload1870
acquire1877
maintain1881
syndicate1882
scalp1886
pyramid1888
underwrite1889
oversubscribe1891
joint-stock1894
wash1895
write1908
mark1911
split1927
marry1931
stag1935
unwind1958
short1959
preplace1966
unitize1970
bed and breakfast1974
index-link1974
warehouse1977
daisy-chain1979
strip1981
greenmail1984
pull1986
1721 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. Mar. (1966) II. 1 I advis'd him..to sell out of the Subscription [for South Sea stock].
a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) ii. 40 Then sell out till you sink it [sc. stock] two and a half.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xxiii. 300 I wrote..sending her a power of attorney to him [sc. the agent], to sell out the stock.
1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret I. iv. 68 He made arrangements for selling out a couple of hundred pounds worth of consols.
1893 W. G. Cordingley Guide to Stock Exchange 61 Should a purchaser fail to take up his securities..when the Certificate and Transfer are presented to him, the seller has the right to instruct an official to ‘sell out’ at once by auction.
3. intransitive. To dispose of one's commission in the army by sale. Now historical. (Cf. 3b above.)
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society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > appointment to rank > be appointed to rank [verb (intransitive)] > sell commission
to sell out1787
1787 Minor 13 After some campaigns;.. his creditors allowing him the alternative of rotting in a jail, or selling out.
1860 W. M. Thackeray Lovel (1861) iv. 133 His regiment was ordered to India, and he sold out.
4. transitive. To dispose of the whole of (one's stock, property, etc.) by sale. Also absol., and intransitive for passive.Also colloquial in passive, to have sold one's whole stock of some article.
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society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)] > sell assets for cash
realize1781
to sell out1811
society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > completely dispose of by sale
to sell upc1480
to sell offa1684
to sell out1811
to close out1852
society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)] > be sold or find buyers > completely
to sell out1811
1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility II. xii. 228 In spite of its [sc. an estate's] owner having once been within some thousand pounds of being obliged to sell out at a loss. View more context for this quotation
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 155 Three young women went to market with eggs... All three sold out, and at the same rate.
1898 Daily News 8 Aug. 2/5 [He] sold out his licensed premises.
1907 Daily Chron. 9 Sept. 3/1 I produced two one act operas..and our takings were no more than £57. In Germany or Italy the house would have been sold out.
1914 Daily Mail 31 Jan. 1/2 My first parcel from you sold out very quickly.
1974 M. Birmingham You can help Me ii. 39 The Friday flower stall was rapidly selling out.
5. colloquial (originally U.S. Political slang). transitive and intransitive. To betray a person or cause for gain (cf. sell-out n. at sell n.2 4). Also transitive, to betray (a candidate) by secret bargains (Cent. Dict. 1891).
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > unfaithfulness > be unfaithful [verb (intransitive)] > betray principles, etc., for gain
to sell out1857
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [verb (transitive)] > betray candidate by secret bargains
to sell out1857
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > unfaithfulness > be unfaithful to [verb (transitive)] > principles, etc. > for gain
to sell out1857
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. lxxxiii. 110 When this transfer of the solid vote of a body of agitators is the result of a bargain with the old party which gets the vote, it is called ‘selling out’.
1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman iii. 78 He has sold out to the parliamentary humbugs and the bourgeoisie.
1946 A. Koestler Thieves in Night 112 The English are going to sell out on us.
1976 Survey Winter 86 Barbé called for tactics of disobedience to the colonial administrators and to the traditional chiefs who had ‘sold out’ to the French government.
1857 Lawrence (Kansas Territory) Republican 2 July 1 If the Times has not been ‘sold out’ to the Border Ruffian party, it looks very much as if it had been ‘chartered’.1867 Oregon State Jrnl. 19 Jan. 3/1 The writer thinks the officers were ‘badly sold out’.1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind ix. 189 Why quibble about the Yankees earning an honest penny selling out the Union?1940 J. B. Priestley Postscripts 45 It let the old hands, the experts,..speak for it, and they sold it out.1967 Times 17 Nov. 8/6 With shouts of ‘They sold us out, the bastards’, the meeting moved to ‘the moment of truth’.1976 ‘J. Charlton’ Remington Set xxviii. 141 What happened is, Rog sold us out.
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