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sell-down

sell-down is the alternative form of selldown.

Meaning of selldown

Noun

selldown (plural selldowns)

  1. (Australia) The selling of sufficient shares to significantly reduce their price.
    • Telstra Corporation was down 11 cents, or 3.17 per cent, at $3.36 continuing Friday's drop that followed a selldown by the Future Fund, the nation's sovereign wealth fund.2009 August 24, “Market takes a big leap forward”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2009

Forms of sell-down

pluralsell-downs

Questions about sell-down

What is sell-down the alternative form of?
Sell-down is the alternative form of selldown.

Words near sell-down in the dictionary

  1. sell up
  2. sell wolf tickets
  3. sell woof tickets
  4. sell-by date
  5. sell-by dates
  6. sell-down
  7. sell-downs
  8. sell-off
  9. sell-offs
  10. sell-out
  11. sell-outs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sell-down (page history and authors); selldown (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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