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sell off

sell off verb: to sell assets for the purpose of disposing of them quickly rather than for maximizing profit.

Verb

sell off (third-person singular simple present sells off, present participle selling off, simple past and past participle sold off)

  1. (transitive) To sell assets for the purpose of disposing of them quickly rather than for maximizing profit.
    • When Cyril goes searching for his deadbeat father, he’s also looking for his bike, and he’s devastated to discover his dad sold it off to make ends meet.March 15 2012, Soctt Tobias, The Kid With A Bike [Review]
    • I have always argued that despite my opposition to rail privatisation, I should be grateful that John Major won the 1992 election on a platform to sell off the railways, as otherwise my column would have disappeared given the paucity of things to write about.2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60

sell off meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

sell off in Tamil

நெருக்கடி விற்பனை

sell off in Urdu

جلد بازی میں بیچنا

sell off in Kannada

ಕಡಮೆ ದರದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾರು

Forms of sell off

third-person singular presentsells off
present participleselling off
past participlesold off
pastsold off

Words formed from sell off

Questions about sell off

What does sell off mean?
Sell off means to sell assets for the purpose of disposing of them quickly rather than for maximizing profit.
What is sell off in Tamil?
Sell off in Tamil is நெருக்கடி விற்பனை. See Sell off meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sell off?
Sell off is a verb.
What is the past tense of sell off?
The past tense of sell off is sold off.

Words near sell off in the dictionary

  1. sell in May then go away
  2. sell in May, then go away
  3. sell in May, then stay away
  4. sell like hot cakes
  5. sell my clothes, I'm going to heaven
  6. sell off
  7. sell on
  8. sell one's ass
  9. sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage
  10. sell one's body
  11. sell one's life dearly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sell off (page history and authors); sell off (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sell off (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sell off (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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