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单词 sell
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sellverb

uk/sel/us/sel/sold, sold

sell verb (MONEY)

A2 [ I or T ] to give something to someone else in return for money:

[ + two objects ] I sold him my car/I sold my car to him for $600.
We'll be selling the tickets at/for £50 each.
The stall sells drinks and snacks.

A2 [ I or T ] to be bought in the way or quantities that are mentioned; to be sold at the price mentioned :

These baskets sell well (= a lot of them are bought).
Their last album sold over a hundred thousand copies.
How much does the phone sell for?

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Selling

  • auction
  • bake sale
  • bundle
  • chain of production
  • divest
  • export
  • pile
  • pile it high and sell it cheap idiom
  • price yourself out of the market idiom
  • privatize
  • purvey
  • realizable
  • realization
  • serve
  • shift
  • supersize
  • telesales
  • tout
  • undercharge
  • unsold

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sell verb (PERSUADE)

C2 [ T ] to persuade someone that an idea or plan is a good one and likely to be successful:

My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.
The filmmakers sold me on the idea that my book would work on the screen.
[ + two objects ] The chance of greater access to European markets would help sell the president the plan/sell the plan to the president.
In an interview, you have to sell yourself to the employer.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Urging & persuading

  • argumentation
  • blag
  • brainwash
  • bring
  • browbeat
  • butter
  • get sth out of sb
  • incite
  • persuasion
  • pitch
  • preach
  • press-gang
  • prevail on/upon sb
  • proselytize
  • rush sb into (doing) sth
  • sucker sb into sth
  • talk sb down
  • talk sb out of sth
  • twist
  • work on sb

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Idiom(s)

sell sb a bill of goods
sell sb down the river
sell sb/yourself/sth short
sell your soul (to the devil)

Phrasal verb(s)

sell sth off
sell out
sell (sb) out
sell up

sellverb

uk/sel/ussold, sold

[ I or T ] COMMERCE, FINANCE to give something to someone else in return for money:

sell securities/shares/stock
sell a car/company/house
The 43% owner of the company indicated that it was ready to sell.
sell sth to sb/sth The partners plan to sell 40% of the company to investors.
sell sb sth We are going to sell him our car.
sell to sb/sth The site could be built on if the owners decided to sell to private developers.
sell sth at $10/$100, etc. It raised $180 million Monday by selling 7.2 million shares at $25 apiece.
sell sth at a loss/markup/profit The business was sold at an enormous profit.
sell sth for $10/$100, etc. How much did you sell your house for?

[ I or T ] COMMERCE to have something available for people to buy:

sell goods/products/services
On either bank of the river are specialist shops selling designer clothes, books, music and art.
Its products are sold in 150 countries.
We sell directly via a contact sales force.
sell online/over the internet

[ I or T ] COMMERCE, FINANCE to be bought in the quantities or the way specified:

sell fast/well The watches are selling well through the group's retail outlets.
sell at $10/$100, etc. The stock is currently selling at 11 times earnings estimates.
sell for $10/$100, etc. The games console will sell for $349.
The company had problems with overstocking and products that didn't sell.
The magazine is now selling 225,000 copies a week.

[ I or T ] MARKETING to make people want to buy something:

Price and delivery are only two elements of the marketing mix that sells products.
It's a cliche of advertising to say that "sex sells".

[ T ] to persuade someone that an idea or plan is a good one, and likely to be successful:

He is trying to sell an idea for a TV comedy.
sell sth to sb The government sold spending cuts to the public as a way to get the economy growing again.
sell yourself

to persuade people that you have the right qualities or abilities for a particular job or in a particular situation:

The phone interview is your one chance to sell yourself.
sell like hot cakes informal

to be bought quickly and in large numbers:

With-profits bonds have sold like hot cakes to older people looking for a low-risk, high return for their money.

Phrasal verb(s)

sell sth back to sb/sth
sell sth forward
sell into sth
sell sth off
sell sb on sth
sell sth on
sell out
sell through
sell up

sellnoun [ C, usually singular ]

uk/sel/usMARKETING

an act of selling or trying to sell a product or service:

a difficult/hard/tough sell In spite of continuing drought conditions, artificial grass remains a hard sell.
Fear of unemployment make mortgage protection an easy sell.
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sale

an act of trying to persuade someone that something is a good idea:

a hard/difficult/tough sell Tax breaks for developers to build more-expensive housing would be a tough sell.

[ C ] also sell rating FINANCE, STOCK MARKET advice to sell shares in a particular company from a broker:

The broker SG Securities is moving its rating to a sell.
While Merrill has a neutral recommendation, we believe the shares are a sell.

See also

hard sell
soft sell
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