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Sell Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to transfer (goods) to or render (services) for another in exchange for money; dispose of to a purchaser for a price: He sold the car to me for $1000. | | 2. | to deal
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in; keep or offer for sale: He sells insurance. This store sells my favorite brand. | | 3. | to make a sale or offer for sale to: He'll sell me the car for $1000. | | 4. | to persuade or induce (someone) to buy something: The salesman sold me on a more expensive model than I wanted. | | 5. | to persuade or induce someone to buy (something): The clerk really sold the shoes to me by flattery. | | 6. | to make sales of: The hot record sold a million copies this month. | | 7. | to cause to be accepted, esp. generally or widely: to sell an idea to the public. | | 8. | to cause or persuade to accept; convince: to sell the voters on a candidate. | | 9. | to accept a price for or make a profit of (something not a proper object for such action): to sell one's soul for political power. | | 10. | to force or exact a price for: The defenders of the fort sold their lives dearly. | | 11. | Informal. to cheat, betray, or hoax. | –verb (used without object) | 12. | to engage in selling something. | | 14. | to offer something for sale: I like this house—will they sell? | | 15. | to be employed to persuade or induce others to buy, as a salesperson or a clerk in a store: One sister is a cas
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hier and the other sells. | | 16. | to have a specific price; be offered for sale at the price indicated (fol. by at or for): Eggs used to sell at sixty cents a dozen. This shirt sells for thirty dollars. | | 17. | to be in demand by buyers: On a rainy day, umbrellas really sell. | | 18. | to win acceptance, approval, or adoption: Here's an idea that'll sell. | –noun | 20. | an act or method of selling. | | 21. | Stock Exchange. a security to be sold. | | 22. | Informal. a cheat; hoax. | —Verb phrases | 23. | sell off, to sell, esp. at reduced prices, in order to get rid of: The city is selling off a large number of small lots at public auction. | | 24. | sell out, | a. | to dispose of entirely by selling. | | b. | to betray (an associate, one's country, a cause, etc.); turn traitor: He committed suicide rather than sell out to the enemy. | | | 25. | sell up, British. to sell out: She was forced to sell up her entire stock of crystal. | —Idiom | 26. | sell short. short (def. 50). | |
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Car Definition–noun | 2. | a vehicle running on rails, as a streetcar or railroad car. | | 3. | the part of an elevator, balloon, modern airship, etc., that carries the passengers, freight, etc. | | 4. | British Dialect. any wheeled vehicle, as a farm cart or wagon. | | 5. | Literary. a chariot, as of war or triumph. | | 6. | Archaic. cart; carriage. | |
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Online Definition–adjective | 1. | operating under the direct control of, or connected to, a main computer. | | 2. | connected by computer to one or more other computers or networks, as through a commercial electronic information service or the Internet. | | 3. | of or denoting a business that transmits electronic information over telecommunications lines: an on-line bookstore. | | 4. | available or operating on a computer or computer network: an on-line dictionary. | | 5. | by means of or using a computer: on-line shopping. | | 6. | Radio. (of a network) supplying affiliated stations with all or a substantial part of their programming. | | 7. | Television. of or pertaining to the final editing of a videotaped program. | | 8. | done or accomplished while in operation or active service: on-line maintenance. | | 9. | located on major routes or rail lines: on-line industries. | –adverb | 10. | with or through a computer, esp. over a network. | |
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