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Definition of Sell off
1. Verb. Get rid of by selling, usually at reduced prices. "The store sold off the surplus merchandise"
Definition of Sell off
1. Verb. (transitive) To sell at low cost, in order to sell it quickly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sell Off
Literary usage of Sell off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts by Massachusetts County Court (Essex County), George Francis Dow (1921)
"Upon petition of Mary Challis, court having at the ordering of the estate allowed
her to sell off the waste land to the value of 10li. for the repairing of ..."
2. Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1870)
"... and the Coffee House, and intends to sell off more. WILLIAM PENN TO JAMES LOGAN.
... sell off ..."
3. Sudan, Oil, and Human Rights by Jemera Rone (2003)
"Campaign Against Oil Investment Pressure to sell off Talisman Shares US pressure
... They also pressured Talisman shareholders to sell off their Talisman ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on Magisterial Law and on the Practice of Magistrates by Walter Shirley Shirley (1881)
"Licenses to sell " off"—When the application is for a license to sell beer, cider,
or wine not to be consumed on the premises (or for a spirit-dealer's ..."
5. Recollections of a Diplomatist by Horace Rumbold (1902)
"When I had completed my various arrangements I returned to Paris, and thence to
my old post to sell off my things and pack up. ..."
6. Friends' Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1858)
"Suppose he has a hundred acres of: land and owes $1000, might he not sell off a
quarter of his land, pay off his mortgage, and : have as much land left as ..."
7. Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by James Curtis Hepburn (1873)
"HAKASE,-r#,-ta, tv To cause to vomit, or spit out ; to make flow out, to i
discharge; sell off; to make put on, a professor. HAKA-WARA, n. A cemetery. ..."
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