sells

Verb

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

1. (ditransitive, intransitive, transitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
   • She sold her old car very quickly.

   Synonyms:

   peddle, vend

   Antonyms:

   buy, purchase, aby, cheap, procure, snap up

2. (ergative) To be sold.
   • This old stock will never sell.
3. (transitive) To promote (a product or service) although not being paid in any direct way or at all.
   • Howard: You're gonna feel terrible when I'm in a wheelchair. Which, by the way, would fit easily in the back of this award-winning minivan.
     Bernadette: Fine, we'll go to the E.R. Just stop selling me on the van.
     Howard: You're right. It sells itself.2016, “The Fetal Kick Catalyst”, in The Big Bang Theory
4. (transitive) To promote (a particular viewpoint).
   • My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.
5. (transitive) To betray for money or other things.

   Synonyms:

   sell the pass, sell down the river, sell out, assfuck, betray, burn, cop out, cross out, cross up, double-cross

6. (slang, transitive) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
   • Then weaues
     Other crosse-plots
     New tricks for safety, are sought;
     They thriue: When, bold,
     Each tempt's th'other againe, and all are sold.1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page)

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