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Definition of Oversells
1. oversell [v] - See also: oversell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversells
Literary usage of Oversells
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Collection Methods: A Systematic Treatment of the Place of Collections by Edward Hall Gardner (1918)
"The insurance company which oversells is punished by lapses, the book company
which oversells finds its collection lengthy and expensive and is obliged to ..."
2. Report by American Library Association War service (1919)
"The New York Office is a clearing house for new books and gift books for all
camps, a dispatch office for shipment of books and magazines oversells, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1837)
"... sheriff under an alleged execution the general matter in cvi- against the
goods of one Read. I lie defendants, as by statute he oversells of the poor ..."
4. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1876)
"But you see the Misconduct of a Mr. Todd oversells the designs of a good
Government, & I am Confident the Exertions of a Majority of most Spirited Virtuous ..."
5. Correspondence of William Pitt, when Secretary of State, with Colonial by William Pitt, Gertrude Selwyn Kimball, Great Britain Foreign Office (1906)
"... well if they continue steady, but that is precarious; As the least jealousy,
or smallest disgust, oversells a months Civility, and good usage at once. ..."
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